....and continued.........
We headed over towards the part of the resort where the luau happens. But either there was no luau that night, or they were between luaus? Not sure. There was NO one over that way. Kind of eery a little bit.
We found a really cool tree and decided to "act out" the name of the type of tree....
Can you guess the name of the tree? The Strangler Fig! (tee hee!)
(Hey, don't judge the dorkiness people, we were at Disney - all dorky behaviour is forgiven here.)
We made Andi take a picture with this statue. If I recall, she was a bit scared of this one....
We were having a blast and totally enjoying everything around this awesome resort.
And it was happening.... Megan was totally digging the Poly. In fact, she changed her mind from the GF to the Poly for her trip!
Our silly antics continued into the gift shop back inside the building...
Okay, in this next picture, we were trying to make it look like we were both lifting up the statue from the bars on either side. Yeah, this one didn't work as well - we just look stupid.
Before long, we were headed out the front door to catch a bus to DHS. But first we had to try out a cool feature on Megan's new camera - smile recognition! Once you point the camera, it automatically can tell when everyone's smiling and at that moment, it takes a pic! So cool!
Once we got to DHS, we got some Photopass pics in our evening attire!....
We headed up the street and what did our eyes behold?
And insanely long line for Fantasmic!
Wowzers.
Okay, so I had never seen Fantasmic. You may ask how I'd never seen it after all these Disney trips under my belt..... well, it just never worked out. There was no DHS (or MGM for that matter) during my really young trips to WDW and even when it did open when I was in my early teens, there was no Fantasmic. And since DHS is our half-day park, we're usually never there in the evening anyway.
But Andi and Megan insisted that I had to see it!
So we got in the super long line - an hour before the show.
Funny - I'm looking at my notes and the two things I have written down under the part mentioning the Fantasmic line is "cattle" and "B.O."
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand continuing...
Waiting for the show to start:
Fantasmic pics!
Fantasmic was okay. It was cool when they played the movie scenes on the giant sprays of water. But it seemed really disjointed to me. I guess that makes sense, since it's supposed to be Mickey's dream and all - and we all know how disjointed dreams can be. But, I just didn't feel it. I won't be running to see it again. But at least I can say now that I've done it!
After leaving the show, we decided to use those Tower of Terror fastpasses that we had picked up earlier in the day.
We headed in. (And I was so excited to ride this super awesome amazing ride again!)
JUST after getting on our "service elevator", we had to get out because it apparently was broken. This freaked Andi out a bit, but Megan and I were not going to miss riding ToT! We just had to move over to the next "elevator" and get on the next ride!
ToT was wonderful as usual, although the young kid in our ride was a bit upset that my enthusiastic jazz hands were covering his face in the ride pic. Sorry kid! I just can't help it sometimes....
A quick Photopass pic leaving ToT:
We knew at this point with Fantasmic totally emptied out and it being EMH, that TSM would be insane, so we avoided it.
So we did what anyone else would do under such circumstances - we walked around and took silly pictures while making complete fools of ourselves!
continued...........................
on being able to get special FPs for TSM...beats having to arrive early and join the mad dash! The guy with you on RnR Coaster looks like how I probably will on my first ride
That is one super sweet deal! I heard of someone getting rooms at the Boardwalk for some insanely low price as well. I guess it can happen if you are in the right place at the right time.
- love it!
So glad you're still here!
) 
But I'm over it. Really I am.....
