Tuesday!
our day started like our last few with an early morning entrance to DL, did our usual firsts! no photos of our first part since had taken so many already!
Up first Space Mountain x2, Buzz Lightyear x2 and Star Tours! all in the first hour!
we then headed over to the rope drop over to AdventureLand to ride Indy, they let in all those in front of us and then asked us to wait for a few minutes, before they had us follow a CM through the big queue area, they were already opening up the outside area which snakes back and forth....we found out why when we got about 2/3 of the way through the inside queue, the ride had broken down

we decided to wait for a bit and fingers crossed it would come back up...waited about 15 minutes and we heard the cheering from inside the loading area!
after our adventure with Indy we went over to Pirates and rode that! when we got out of Pirates the wait time was already 60 minutes! it was about 9am at that point! we decided to ride the train around the loop and then had some yummy cinnamon rolls from the Jolly Holiday Bakery and took a break for awhile, knew we would be doing lots of walking during our tour!
got a bottle of water, hit the restrooms and walked through some of the stores before checking in for our tour!
Walking in Walt's Footsteps was something I'd been wanting to do for a long time and when I heard they had added a visit to Walt's apartment knew we had to finally experience it!
we got checked in and received our name tags, which we got to keep!
headsets and how to use them and ordered our lunches which was included from the Jolly Holiday Bakery while we waited for the tour to start!
our CM, Michael had only been doing tours since October and you could tell he was still a bit nervous, but he did a great job! a cool part about having the headsets was being able to hear different speeches and interviews from Walt through the IPod/headsets connection.
we had a group of a Dad with teenage DS, Dad with 8 year old DD, a single lady and family of mom, dad, grandma and teenage DS and DD, which was great it wasn't too big of a group considering the crowds!
we started off in Main Street learning about Walt's arrival to CA and first visions of
Disneyland and how different parts of Main Street were designed! then went to Fantasyland and learned about the different rides there and got to ride Peter Pan - none of my photos turned out, but did get a photo of Megan trying to remove the sword!
next up was Frontierland and some history on the Rivers of America and the ships that sail it! and how this came to be in the park!
the Disney's loved to take road trips and Walt purchased the Petrified tree from a park and gave it to Lily...she made a joke about it not fitting on their mantel at home and decided to gift it to the park for all to see!
up next.....CLUB 33! while we only got to see the lobby, believe me we all tried our hardest to go upstairs for a peek, we were thrilled to see what we could of it!
Michael gave us some info about the history of the Club, Walt wanted a private area to spend time with his special guests and he loved Jazz music! we waited while Michael went to get us admitted outside the door.
when we walked in, we had the opportunity to take as many photos as we wished while getting more info about it.
after our photo op we headed back out to New Orleans Square and had a quick restroom stop before learning about Pirates and The Haunted Mansion, both rides were originally supposed to be walk threw attractions, before technology made it possible for them to have the boats and doom buggies!
we then got ready to ride the train, but it was packed! when the conductor came down to see how many people we had, he said we could ride in the LilyBelle car! it was the Disney's private car and not always available! we were thrilled to have the opportunity! Michael said it wasn't technically part of the tour and didn't want us to say anything about it to the CM's when we got back....but I told him it was PIXIE DUST, he didn't ask to have us ride!
so we loaded up and enjoy the ride while taking photos and looking at a copy of a family photo album...photos in next post...