I saw Pooh! No not Winnie the Pooh. Lemme 'splain. If any of you have read UtahMama’s TR you might recognize
Pooh. He was her skipper on her JC and even got a pic with him. So if you’ve read her report you might know who I’m talking aboot, but if you haven’t….what’s wrong with you? Very funny TR and definitely a good read amongst TRs. Ok enough plugging of other people’s TRs, back to mine.
So I spot Pooh and I am alone in my excitement of recognizing him. I wanted to take a pic, but my party has jumped ahead of me and was walking out of JC. So bye skipper Pooh!
As we exit JC we look around for what to do next. Aladdin is near us, but it already has a freakishly ginormous line, so no Aladdin for us. The Tiki Room is right in front of us, but it doesn’t seem up and running yet, so can’t do that one either. It’s almost 11 am and we’ve only done 2 1/2 rides (the Treehouse is the ½)!
But we’ve actually done 5 ½ things, so not too bad.
Collette had bought herself a personalized ring while we were doing our character things. It was really cute and had the initials of her family along the top.
Moving along we head into
We mosey on over to SM and BTMRR and SM has a ridiculous wait time already so we decide to FP that one and BTMRR has a 20 min wait, but it was actually like 10 min. So score another one for us!
Here we are as we enter the line:
Here we are before the ride:
This ride really jerks you around! I didn’t remember that at all. No wonder babies get squished on BTMRR (that was for you V).
Our FP time isn’t up yet so we get transported into the Old West and I spot Country Bear Jamboree (CBJ). I ask everyone if they wanna see it (and explain what it is) and everyone’s in. As we’re walking in the CM stops us and tells us that the next show starts in 15 min. Wah?!
The time thingy just said 5 min wait! Ugh! So we turn our rejected selves back and decide to wait it out and take up on a little platform thingy. DC wanders off….again.
I decide to call Mommy and check in with her. Yani is texting her BF and Collette and Monica decide to lie down on the platform thingy and rest. DC calls me over to a store nearby and in I walk into a Disney pin store. Why oh why does DC do this to me. She knows full well my Ebay shopping extravaganza for Disney pins prior to the trip where I spent way too much money on pins I wanted to keep as opposed to trade (which defeats the whole purpose of wanting to pin trade). Anyhoo she shows me a cutie Donald pin and I’m so tempted to buy it until I see its $8 price tag.
Nope, that’s way too overpriced for me. We peruse the pin shop some more and I finally drag her out to see if we can hit up CBJ now. Well whaddya know, they’re letting people into CBJ and I let everyone know, so we walk on over again and I see the CM close the door. D’oh!!
Well apparently we missed CBJ again, so this show was apparently not for us. Fine. Moving on. I consult with Yani, who’s my tour guide associate on what we can do next that’s not too far away and she says Haunted Mansion (HM) is nearby. Excellent (said in the Mr. Smithers voice).
HM had a short wait:
I absolutely lurrrve this ride. I take some pics and we’re let into our holding cell and I’m snapping pics for my scrapbook when the CM loudly announces, “No Flash Photography!”
Ooops.
I didn’t know…..honest.
We have now crossed the point of no return. DC and Collette are kinda freaked and we’re soon plunged into darkness and led to our death….err buggy’s. DC, Yani and I ride in a buggy and Collette and Monica in the other. I don’t care how old this ride is, it is still as great as the first time I rode it all those years ago in
Disneyland when my love for all things Disney began. So we meet our hitchhiking ghost
and our HM adventure has come to an end.
I spot the carriage outside the exit and ask the Photopass people if we can take a pic:
Then Yani spots the little kiosk selling her other lover’s stuff, Jack Skellington from Nightmare Before Christmas (she has a thing for Jacks). Amazingly she controls herself and doesn’t buy anything but we did try on some hats:
Well whaddya know! Our SM FP time has finally arrived. Yani opts out of SM, alright. We leave all our stuff with her and you will not believe this… Monica pulls out a shower cap!
Oh my little goodness! She is not serious. Apparently neither Collette nor Monica wants to get their hair wet. So I tell them I’ll let them know when to cover their heads because I am not walking into SM with her wearing a shower cap.
We head into to SM and pass all the suckers…err people in the stand by again and shortly board our log. My favorite part of this ride is The Laughing Place. It truly does just make you want to laugh.
Here’s a pic Yani snapped of us after we had splashed:
Collette and I are up front (she covered her head with her sweater) and DC and Monica are behind us. Unfortunately I didn’t think of taking a redneck pic to see Monica in her full shower cap glory and I sure wasn’t buying it either.
We meet up with Yani and spot the Woody and Friends show thingy going on over by CBJ. As we’re making our way through Monica spots the Turkey Legs and buys herself one:
We watch the show for a few minutes and move head back to Main Street. Everyone is getting hungry and DC wants to eat at Casey’s so we’re headed over there. As we take the little walkway on the side of the castle I see we missed Cinderellabration because some fireworks were going off. Darn! I really wanted to see it. Oh well, next time.
At Casey’s Collette does the hover thing waiting for a table to vacate. DC and Monica head in to get in line for food. I ask Collette what she wants and she wants a burger. I don’t know if they sell burgers here so I quickly check the menu and that’s a negative Ghost Rider. Yani and I want burgers too, so we check the map to locate Pecos Bill’s and it’s back in Frontierland. We tell Collette we’re going there to get the burgers. Yani and I head back from where we came and it is now packed. Whoa! (said like Joey from Blossom, does anyone remember that show?) We just left this place a minute ago. Pecos is packed with THEM and we’re part of it, but the lines were short so it wasn’t too bad. Yani and I tap into our never used before waitressing skills and zig zag through the crowd with our trays back to Casey’s to get our grub on. All I have to say is my burger was delicious and so was my peanut butter brownie mousse.
We finish up our grub and stake out a spot in front of Casey’s because it’s almost Parade Time! Where’d DC go?
Parade Time!