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[disneyAndi14]

We love MK at night, we love LM, I know it gets a lot of rips here on the dis, but we really enjoy it. The cue is long, however, it usually has a short wait most of the time. We also rode SDMT for the first time at night in September and really enjoyed even though it was raining on us. I am with you, I would never wait even more than 30 minutes for most rides now at WDW, except maybe TSMM, love that one. I do think FP+ did lengthen the wait times for most rides now but it does have good points as well.

 

[rteetz]

I have FP'd mine train every time. The longest I have waited was an hour for Soarin but that was because I had never ridden it before and wanted to check it out.

 

[DisneyFreak06]

We love MK at night, we love LM, I know it gets a lot of rips here on the dis, but we really enjoy it. The cue is long, however, it usually has a short wait most of the time. We also rode SDMT for the first time at night in September and really enjoyed even though it was raining on us. I am with you, I would never wait even more than 30 minutes for most rides now at WDW, except maybe TSMM, love that one. I do think FP+ did lengthen the wait times for most rides now but it does have good points as well.

Ouch! I can't imagine riding an outdoor ride in the rain. Except something covered like the Teacups or the Carousel! LOL I totally agree with the waits being longer because of FP+. Yes, it's fun to skip a line, but at the same time, some things don't actually need that. I don't remember a long line for HM or even Pirates before FP+. And things like IASW or Figment at Epcot are now longer too.

I have FP'd mine train every time. The longest I have waited was an hour for Soarin but that was because I had never ridden it before and wanted to check it out.

Soarin is such a long walk even without an actual queue! LOL It would seem like a long time to even just walk through it without a line of people ahead of you. I have in the past as well, but now I won't. Soarin max posted time that I will hop in line is 40 minutes, but I'd be hoping it was shorter!

 

[DisneyFreak06]

Aug 23, 2015

The original plan was that we would be heading to mass, walking over to the outlet mall next door, then eating at DTD, either for lunch or supper, and then heading to Epcot. We had some evening FP+ for that evening. Well, that day changed quite a bit!

Blanche didn't feel like walking around the outlet malls etc, so I went to mass and to the outlet mall on my own, after I had some yummy breakfast at Pop.

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I had my picture taken with the Holy Father. I tried to get a selfie in, but I just couldn't do it, so a kind lady offered to take my picture for me.

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I spent time and money in the gift shop at the church. I would love to buy this, but I don't think it will fit in my carry on, and it's a little more than I should be spending right now:

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This too:

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I did spend some money. Less than I usually do! I bought some sandals at Clark's, some at the Disney outlet and I only bought ONE pair of jeans at Levi's. I wish that Diego who worked at the Levi's outlet in LA was working in Orlando. He was a great salesman. I think I bought about 4-5 pairs of jeans because of him, and I struggle with jeans. I was so excited that I hugged him! (I asked first!)

I can't remember if I took the taxi directly to Pop or to DTD, but I was back at Pop soon enough. I must have just grabbed a snack out of the leftovers in the room or something because we just relaxed in the room before heading to DTD for an early supper.

One of my sisters (AKA Rose of the Golden Girls) loves the Rescuers. Well, so do I, but she does Bianca's voice and we'll sing Rescue Aid Society together and she knows more words than I do... so I took some detailed pictures of the poster in our room and sent them to her. She told me to steal the poster! I did NOT, just in case you were wondering.

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Every time we were at the stairs, I would race Blanche. She would take the elevator up or down and I would beat her by using the stairs. I would wait until the beep of the elevator arriving, then I would run. So once, I snapped a picture of her coming out of the elevator, and then I ran back up the stairs and down so she could take me coming down. We are dorks like that. Yes, we are!

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Here comes the bus... all dressed in...

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I have not spent enough time at DTD in the last few trips. Weird.

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We knew what we wanted. We love this place.

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We also love Earl of Sandwich, but we didn't get that this time.

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I got the margherita pizza once. LOVED it! But then we usually share, and since Blanche doesn't love pizza as much as I do, and we both love chicken alfredo, that's what we usually get.

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This time we got a little side salad too. I'm not sure why, it's plenty of food!

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Blanche let me get the dessert this time.

I really, really, really love crème brulée.

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Sorry these are so fuzzy, they were with my cell.

I wanted to buy this, and I still do. It matches my flatware sets that I have... packed away... in a box... in the basement. (I will take them out when I get my own place!)

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And I love, love, love these too! I don't see them on the Disneystore website anymore and that makes me really nervous! I want them for when/if I ever get my own place.

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I love Mickey's Pantry:

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And the Days of Christmas store too!

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[DisneyFreak06]

We were going to take the boat to POR or POFQ and wander a few minutes and then take a bus to a park or something like that. I knew that the dock had changed, but then we just kept wandering around and the dock was basically where it was before.

So I took pictures while we wandered around and browsed some shops of course!

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I don't think I went past the Lego store since 2010. I was looking forward to seeing some changes.

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Evinrude... isn't he a the bird from the Rescuers? (I had to look it up just now, he's a dragonfly!)

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We ended up back at WPE, Blanche wanted to relax in the seats outside. So I went inside, got myself a lemonade and her an ice water and we sat in the shade. It was HOT! We really found the heat to be more than we were used to. And we both love heat.

Here's me drinking and being really silly.

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See? Lemonade.

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Goofy's candy!

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Milk chocolate, oreo and white chocolate. Every. Single. Time.

We had our picture taken here buy a lovely CM walking by.

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But since Blanche doesn't want her picture in the TR, you don't see it!

I think we took the bus back, but the AoA bus got there first, so we hopped on that I guess, since I have pictures at AoA.

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Yep, I'll be 40 in a bit...

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And back to our room. Where I'm sure we just relaxed for a bit.

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[DisneyFreak06]

Before long, the sun was setting and I was taking pictures of it.

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No Epcot tonight. I was taking a park break.

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I tried an in phone panorama. Not sure if I went to the corner or not.

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I took my mug and I bought a bag of chips, then went down to watch the movie. It was Brave! I love Brave. Of course, I love Gerard Butler (I know he's not in the movie - he would have been good) and Scottish accents, and the beauty of Scotland, even though I've never been.... so I love Brave. And it's a cute movie about an independent you female. Even more independent than Anna, as much as I love Anna.

Yes, I took my camera too.

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Even the CM was surprised that the movie was there, it was supposed to be over by the pool.

It was lightening out, so I tried to catch it too.

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After the movie, I went to the room to head to bed. Blanche was watching the Walking Dead or something. It still is weird to me that she can watch it. She can't even watch Criminal Minds. And I keep telling her she'd like Supernatural for the eye candy, but she won't. She watched one episode of Once Upon a Time, but she freaked out too much because Charming/David nearly died. LOL So watching the Walking Dead is just extreme. LOL

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[jenseib]

Finally got caught up! Loving all the pictures. so glad you didn't steal the rescuers poster since you had been to church just hours before. LOL.

I leave for Orlando in 2 weeks and I just can't wait. Your pictures are making me excited but also make me realize how little of time I have at WDW this time around and I will miss a lot.

 

[DisneyFreak06]

Finally got caught up! Loving all the pictures. so glad you didn't steal the rescuers poster since you had been to church just hours before. LOL.

I leave for Orlando in 2 weeks and I just can't wait. Your pictures are making me excited but also make me realize how little of time I have at WDW this time around and I will miss a lot.

Hee hee hee...

Oh yay! You leave so soon! That is exciting! How short of a trip will it be? Sometimes I think I actually do more on a shorter trip because I take less breaks.

 

[disneyAndi14]

Love all your pictures from Disney Springs and the PoP Resort. WGP quick service has been on my to do list for the past several trips and I still haven't made it there. My daughter loves Splitsville, they do have really good loaded fries and chicken strips. The bowling is fun but it has really went up in price so we just had food our last trip.

 

[DisneyFreak06]

Love all your pictures from Disney Springs and the PoP Resort. WGP quick service has been on my to do list for the past several trips and I still haven't made it there. My daughter loves Splitsville, they do have really good loaded fries and chicken strips. The bowling is fun but it has really went up in price so we just had food our last trip.

I love WGP, that and Earl of Sandwich seem to be my normal visits at DTD. I haven't tried Splitsville yet, but my sister did and I thought I'd like it too. I'm a little cheap though, I don't often go for things that are too pricey, so I likely never will get there if their rates went up.

 

[DisneyFreak06]

The next morning we got up. I can't tell you what we ate because I can't find any receipts for that day. Who knows, maybe I just munched on some leftovers in the room. It's all a blur, no receipts and no pictures! That is very strange.

I can say that I took my normal out the door view shot at around 8:05 am but the wait paint picture was about 20 minutes later, so I figured we would not be making rope drop. We did make rope drop, but no welcome show.

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I do, normally visit the GF at some point on my trip. Would I get there this time?

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Do I really need to explain that I took pictures up Main Street?

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And then some CMs kicked us off Main Street and there was kind of a Flash Mob.

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Not really, it was the Trolley show. The first time I'd seen it was 2013. It's cute.

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I should have been on the other side of the street. This was too sunny and it made for less keepable shots.

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The guy in the red shirt looks really scared here!

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And then again, I paused to photography my... er... Cinderalla Castle.

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[rteetz]

Great photos as always!

I got to experience the new fully completed hub earlier this month and it was really nice.

 

[jsrj21]

Amazing pictures as always!

 

[DisneyFreak06]

Great photos as always!

I got to experience the new fully completed hub earlier this month and it was really nice.

Thanks. Oh, I am looking forward to seeing that.... maybe sometime in 2017. LOL

Amazing pictures as always!

Thanks.

 

[Karyn B.]

Your pictures are fantastic!

 

[DisneyFreak06]

So After taking a bunch of beautiful pictures of the Castle (many more are on Flickr), we headed towards Tomorrowland to do something I'd never done before!

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This guy looks so sad!

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Yes, you are right, we did Astro Orbitor! We'd never done it before!

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Do you think I was having fun? I was totally snapping all these new views that I'd never had before! Including Blanche in the rocket behind me. Hee hee hee. It was hard for her to get in and out of the rocket, but she did it.

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I was really liking the clouds around the castle.

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Then we went on the Peoplemover again, where I got kinda silly.

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A little better here.

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Look where we were a few minutes ago...

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This is not as sharp as I would like, but hey, not bad. Maybe one day.

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[DisneyFreak06]

I kept taking pictures of our ride on the Peoplemover. As you know, we do really enjoy that one. I guess it slows us down sometimes,and it's great to pass some time waiting for a FP time to open up kind of thing!

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I think I need a new hairdresser, it takes WAY more than 5 minutes for my hair to be done!

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And really, no, I think I'll keep my hairdresser. She's been doing my hair since I was 11. And she was 12. She knows me very well! (And she's my big sister.) Yes, she actually starting cutting my hair when I was about 11. I think I may have had someone else do my hair twice since then. And one of them was her friend while they were in school becoming hair stylists) I do think it's great because she actually knows what I can (or will/will not) do with my hair.

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I never did see any video on this, but I'm assuming it's for under Space Mountain maybe?

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Looks like we went around twice, since I have this one again, and it's a little better.

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And our mandatory foot shot for Rose.

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We had a FP+ coming up, and an ADR to get to eventually, so off we went.

 

[DisneyFreak06]

Your pictures are fantastic!

Thank you! And thanks for reading/viewing along!

 

[rteetz]

The people mover is fantastic. It's a must do in my opinion and thankfully it never has a terrible wait.

 

[DisneyFreak06]

The people mover is fantastic. It's a must do in my opinion and thankfully it never has a terrible wait.

Thank goodness! And it's always nice when you want/need a little break and they let you go around more than once.