Sorry for the lack of updates lately!! I work in public accounting and this time of year is CRAZY and will be for the next month or so! But after April 15th, I'm spending 5 days in Punta Cana with my mom & sister (who's also in public accounting), so I have something to look forward to. The updates may be slow to come now for the next month or so but please bear with me!
Up next is the last waterpark update, so once again no photos!
After a very rainy Tuesday and a good night's rest, we woke up around 8:45 and got ready for another Blizzard Beach morning! Since we were there for a full 8 days (our longest trip prior to this was 5 days, 4 of which were WDW days), we felt like we had a lot of time to relax in the waterparks, and it was great! We had a quick breakfast in the room again and changed into our bathing suits. Once again, it was a hot sunny day! We used the same strategy as last time so we didn't have to rent a locker - we threw our towels, sunscreen and KTTW cards in a shopping bag and left everything else behind.
We were at the bus stop by 9:20 and didn't wait long for a bus. It was a quick ride and we were through the turnstiles by 9:45. We were one of the first people in the park and I experienced my first real "rope drop"! We are always at the park at opening but I've never seen the actual rope DROP. But they counted down, and dropped the rope to let us in! We found a good spot to put our stuff down and were off. I chickened out and decided not to do Summit Plummet and Jess didn't care to do it again (she had done it once a few years before) Instead we opted to try the downhill double dipper first! We hiked up the steps and the guy in front of us had his camera (NOT waterproof!) with him. The attendant told him it was going to get ruined and the guy acted like he didn't care. Then he changed his mind and the attendant kindly stored it for him as he used the ride. Like, hello, do you not see the big pool of water at the end??
Anyway, we went down after them and this ride is fun but really short! I think it was like 3 or 5 seconds a ride and it loads reallllly slow because the pool at the bottom has to be totally clear before the next person can go down so I can see why it gets backed up. But since there was no line, we did it again before going to the mat slides on the "purple" slope again since they were our favorite. We did the toboggan racers and did the snow stormers twice - I love those things!
After all that walking, we decided to give the ski lift a try since it was still early and the line was relatively short. This thing kind of grosses me out because you're sitting where alot of other wet tooshies just sat. Ew. So from now on, I'll take the stairs, haha. Once we got to the top, we decided to do the family raft ride, Teamboat Springs. If you'll remember, last time we were on this ride I got a yucky surprise from a co-riders lack of...underwear? This time we were paired up with some foreigners (South American maybe?). NOT that I dislike foreigners or there's anything wrong with sharing a tube with them, but these kids were straight up BRATS. It was two boys (probably 11 and 13-ish?) and their mom. As soon as got to the bottom (where the tube winds through some knee high water before you exit at the end), they kept jumping in and out of the tube, trying not to get caught by CMs and the mom kept looking at us and laughing like - oh, don't you think my kids are cute? One time, one of the boys kicked me in the arm REALLY hard when he was jumping out. I was so not amused. Eventually we got off the tube at the end - I think this ride is just bad luck for me!
After that, we had already done the other slide on green the other day (which we disliked) and the only other ride on the "green" slopes was Summit Plummet - so we head off to the red slopes! I think the only thing of interest here were some open/closed windy slides. We grabbed a double tube then when we got to the top we realized we could only do the open tube with the double slides. So we rode the open tube down (fairly boring), then grabbed single tubes and hiked back up - those stairs are a beast!!! We used our single tubes in the closed slide(which was fun!) and by then we were really tired from all the walking. We jumped in the lazy river and rode to the wave pool (melt away bay). This one is more bobbing type waves rather than the HUGE ones at Typhoon but it was very crowded. We floated around for a few minutes until we were tired of getting bumped into. We went back to our chairs to dry off and lay out for a few minutes in the sunshine, then it was time for lunch!
We went early today - around 11:30 to beat the rush. I had read on the Disney food blog about these pretzel hot dogs they had so I went to grab one! It was a hotdog with nacho cheese wrapped in a pretzel (like a corn dog but a pretzel instead). It came with chips and a cookie and I also got a soda. We went to the lodge thing and grabbed a table outside while Jess got some chicken nuggets - it took FOREVER. Literally, probably about half an hour. I think she was one of the first people in line and the food wasn't ready yet or something. But I sat there by myself yelling at the birds attacking me and eating my cheesy messy hot dog (which was pretty good by the way!). Once Jess finished, it was around 12:35 and we had done everything we wanted to do. We checked out the store on the way out and then waited for the bus. We just missed an AoA bus so we decided to just take the bus to Pop instead! That one came quickly and then we walked through Pop and across the bridge to Art of Animation. It was a nice walk but very HOT, as usual! We quickly went to our rooms and changed before heading out for our next adventure around 1:15 - Hollywood Studios!
! I am all caught up now, though! 
Did you guys ever find him?
Maybe next time. Living with the Land is great - definitely try it next time. Figment is cute also - it's near Captain EO if you know where that is.
