sharona
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Feb 7, 2008
Day 9/Sunday/IOA/US/IOA again/RPR pool cafe/US!!
We were up and ready to go by 7am. This was our big day doing early entry and the park open until 9pm. Boo and 2DT once again insisted on Cinnabon for breakfast. I was not into it so I told them to hit the road without me and I would meet them at the bridge to IOA on their way back. I planned to grab something at Starbucks at IOA when we got there. About 15 minutes after they left I got a call from them that Cinnabon didn't open until 7:30am so they were waiting (there goes early entry!). I said I would walk down to them. The security guy doing the bag check on the walkway to City Walk was especially conscientious, checking every nook and cranny of my camera bag. What did he think I might have in the teeny tiny pocket that is only big enough for SD cards? Was there a Barbie sized gun or knife in there? The bag has a ton of pockets and he unzipped/unvelcro'd/unsnapped every one of them and totally screwed up my carefully packed bag.
It was really foggy on my solo walk.
I arrived at City Walk to crash the daily meeting of the Cinnabon Lover's Club:
Once the sugar fiends got their frosting fix, we headed to IOA. It was almost 8!!!! We of course missed RD for EE. We entered IOA and decided there was no need to rush. We stopped for some pics.
Finally smartened up and wore my bathing suit under my clothes. Not sure why they have you do these silly poses:
We headed up to Hogsmeade and got in line for FJ. The sign said 20 minutes and it was about that. I think that's perfect because it gives you time to see all of the queue but you're pretty much moving the whole time. We rode FJ once together and then DD and 2DT rode again using single rider while I got a frozen butterbeer - yummmmmmy!
Boo is afraid of the creepy stuff ^^^.
After FJ it was too early for water rides so we took HE over to Diagon Alley (no wait as it wasn't the first train of the day). We got to Gringott's and the wait was 10 minutes! As we were leaving we saw our friends getting in line so we jumped back in and rode with them. L told me how their son little J had been asking for a wand but they didn't want to spend $50 on the interactive one. They had just come from the wand show at Olivander's and guess who got the full "the wand chooses the wizard" treatment? Little J of course. And afterwards the TMs took him off to pick out his wand without his parents. Well of course it was a mega expensive one and they said no and I guess a big melt down had occurred because the wand had CHOSEN him!!! He was not happy! Parents beware - you may not want to see the show if you have a big HP fan in your family and don't plan on buying the wand!
We had a great time riding Gringotts together! Even Little J although he dared to debate me on the name of the Weasley brother who is featured the most during the ride. I told him it was Bill but he insisted it was Ron. Jeesh! LOL. The kids rode in front and we were just behind them. No glitches on the ride at all. Afterwards, we were headed to MIB and they were off to Disaster and Terminator. Boo and G were a bit pouty about not staying together so we decided to all meet to ride the Mummy together after they did Disaster. We got there first and rode a few times without them:
Our friends arrived . They had not been on the Mummy yet. Again the 4 kids took the front row and we 4 adults were in row 2. I know I said this before but it bears repeating - I love this ride and it's even more fun with Mummy virgins. They were loving it and all chattering when it was "over". Muahhahaha. Of course we rode again! For some reason neither of the pictures for this ride are there on my photoconnect and I know we scanned our card because I remember looking at the first pic and it was very funny. 2nd time around we all did no hands together per direct orders from Boo and that is missing too. We went our separate ways after that with maybe plans to meet by the pool if we took a break.
No one wanted lunch so we snacked our way out of US and over to IOA. As we were crossing the bridge under the Hulk I had a burst of courage. Boo agreed to ride if I did. OMG!!!! Too late to back out now! I did it, I rode the Hulk! Me, the original scaredy cat roller coaster weenie. Doing no hands on Mummy like it's nothing and suddenly I'm a daredevil. Of course I was petrified the entire time. This photo probably caught the only second that I'd had my eyes open...
Proof^^^
After a recovery popcorn we moved on and rode Spiderman then headed for the water rides. Again I wanted to drop our stuff at the Barges lockers and start at JP and work our way back. Again I got out-voted. We put our stuff in the Barges lockers and got right in line. Standby wait was 45 minutes! It was kind of funny because we hadn't ever been on the barges when we were dry before. We ended up on a raft with a family who had a daughter who was about 16. She was sitting next to me and when the ride started to move I looked over at her and with a totally straight face I asked "Will I get wet on this ride?". Her mouth opened and closed then opened again but nothing came out. At that point I lost it and started laughing. She said "Oh thank god, I thought you were serious". We all thought it was pretty hilarious.
After 2 times on the barges we went over to Dudley. 2nd time through Boo wanted us to do it no hands and we absolutely did! I may have even cracked one eye open behind my sunglasses.
I confess that when we got to the very bottom of the hill and splashed down, I grabbed on because the impact is a bit too scary for no hands!
Boo was now in full whiny mode because she wanted to get back to the pool to try to catch up with G and family so we dripped our way back to RPR!
We were up and ready to go by 7am. This was our big day doing early entry and the park open until 9pm. Boo and 2DT once again insisted on Cinnabon for breakfast. I was not into it so I told them to hit the road without me and I would meet them at the bridge to IOA on their way back. I planned to grab something at Starbucks at IOA when we got there. About 15 minutes after they left I got a call from them that Cinnabon didn't open until 7:30am so they were waiting (there goes early entry!). I said I would walk down to them. The security guy doing the bag check on the walkway to City Walk was especially conscientious, checking every nook and cranny of my camera bag. What did he think I might have in the teeny tiny pocket that is only big enough for SD cards? Was there a Barbie sized gun or knife in there? The bag has a ton of pockets and he unzipped/unvelcro'd/unsnapped every one of them and totally screwed up my carefully packed bag.
It was really foggy on my solo walk.
I arrived at City Walk to crash the daily meeting of the Cinnabon Lover's Club:
Once the sugar fiends got their frosting fix, we headed to IOA. It was almost 8!!!! We of course missed RD for EE. We entered IOA and decided there was no need to rush. We stopped for some pics.
Finally smartened up and wore my bathing suit under my clothes. Not sure why they have you do these silly poses:
We headed up to Hogsmeade and got in line for FJ. The sign said 20 minutes and it was about that. I think that's perfect because it gives you time to see all of the queue but you're pretty much moving the whole time. We rode FJ once together and then DD and 2DT rode again using single rider while I got a frozen butterbeer - yummmmmmy!
Boo is afraid of the creepy stuff ^^^.
After FJ it was too early for water rides so we took HE over to Diagon Alley (no wait as it wasn't the first train of the day). We got to Gringott's and the wait was 10 minutes! As we were leaving we saw our friends getting in line so we jumped back in and rode with them. L told me how their son little J had been asking for a wand but they didn't want to spend $50 on the interactive one. They had just come from the wand show at Olivander's and guess who got the full "the wand chooses the wizard" treatment? Little J of course. And afterwards the TMs took him off to pick out his wand without his parents. Well of course it was a mega expensive one and they said no and I guess a big melt down had occurred because the wand had CHOSEN him!!! He was not happy! Parents beware - you may not want to see the show if you have a big HP fan in your family and don't plan on buying the wand!
We had a great time riding Gringotts together! Even Little J although he dared to debate me on the name of the Weasley brother who is featured the most during the ride. I told him it was Bill but he insisted it was Ron. Jeesh! LOL. The kids rode in front and we were just behind them. No glitches on the ride at all. Afterwards, we were headed to MIB and they were off to Disaster and Terminator. Boo and G were a bit pouty about not staying together so we decided to all meet to ride the Mummy together after they did Disaster. We got there first and rode a few times without them:
Our friends arrived . They had not been on the Mummy yet. Again the 4 kids took the front row and we 4 adults were in row 2. I know I said this before but it bears repeating - I love this ride and it's even more fun with Mummy virgins. They were loving it and all chattering when it was "over". Muahhahaha. Of course we rode again! For some reason neither of the pictures for this ride are there on my photoconnect and I know we scanned our card because I remember looking at the first pic and it was very funny. 2nd time around we all did no hands together per direct orders from Boo and that is missing too. We went our separate ways after that with maybe plans to meet by the pool if we took a break.
No one wanted lunch so we snacked our way out of US and over to IOA. As we were crossing the bridge under the Hulk I had a burst of courage. Boo agreed to ride if I did. OMG!!!! Too late to back out now! I did it, I rode the Hulk! Me, the original scaredy cat roller coaster weenie. Doing no hands on Mummy like it's nothing and suddenly I'm a daredevil. Of course I was petrified the entire time. This photo probably caught the only second that I'd had my eyes open...
Proof^^^
After a recovery popcorn we moved on and rode Spiderman then headed for the water rides. Again I wanted to drop our stuff at the Barges lockers and start at JP and work our way back. Again I got out-voted. We put our stuff in the Barges lockers and got right in line. Standby wait was 45 minutes! It was kind of funny because we hadn't ever been on the barges when we were dry before. We ended up on a raft with a family who had a daughter who was about 16. She was sitting next to me and when the ride started to move I looked over at her and with a totally straight face I asked "Will I get wet on this ride?". Her mouth opened and closed then opened again but nothing came out. At that point I lost it and started laughing. She said "Oh thank god, I thought you were serious". We all thought it was pretty hilarious.
After 2 times on the barges we went over to Dudley. 2nd time through Boo wanted us to do it no hands and we absolutely did! I may have even cracked one eye open behind my sunglasses.
I confess that when we got to the very bottom of the hill and splashed down, I grabbed on because the impact is a bit too scary for no hands!
Boo was now in full whiny mode because she wanted to get back to the pool to try to catch up with G and family so we dripped our way back to RPR!