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I'll write a real TR later, but for now...
We arrived at Hojo a little after 2 and our room wasn't ready...they pretty much told us to take EVERYTHING out of our car, so we checked everything except our cases of water.
No worries there.
I figured it would be cool enough that I could tie my sweatshirt around my waist and wear my trenchcoat over top of it...yeah, nothing doing.
We got into the parks about 2:30. While the sun was out, it was comfortable in short sleeves and thin pants! So we shelled out the $7 (sigh) for a locker. Since we have APs, though, $7 split between 2 people isn't a bad price for admission.
I'm so glad that we went in summer last, because it un-spoiled me, so now the crowds seem downright tiny to me! Main Street/etc. was fairly crowded, but wait times seemed insanely low. When we got in, the board showed Space Mountain at 20 minutes, Indy at 10, Nemo at 20, etc., etc. All the rides that offered Fastpass (with the possible exception of Splash Mountain, which was down when we got in) had plenty of them available well into the evening, which was another pleasant surprise (I was used to them being out for good by early afternoon). Actually, in the case of Space Mountain, we went up the Fastpass line but there was no one to take it so we ended up in the same line as everyone else... Fantasyland was the only thing that was crazy-busy when we went. Small World Holiday had a 45 minute line, but we think part of that may be due to the fact that it had gone down just 30 minutes prior. Anyway, aside from Fantasyland we could do pretty much anything we wanted with no more than 15 minute wait.
The ONLY bad thing was that I lost my LGMH on Indy, less than 2 hours into the park, I think.
I do have a back-up but if that meets the same end then I am going to have a really sad makeshift Mickey head...so if you are in the parks and see a paper Mickey head on someone's bag, it may be me.
Early on, we saw Tiana's Showboat Jubilee and I enjoyed it very much. I'm coming to love those songs! It wasn't crowded at all.
AND, I got to see Murphy! Well, I technically saw her twice; "Miss D" and I hung out for the end of the first show, snuck down front and very near-center before fireworks, and then went forward further as people left after the snow. We actually didn't need to be nearly as aggressive as we were to get good seats; the 10:30 show looked a lot less heavily attended and I think we could've sat in the terraced area at 10 if we wanted to.
Fantasmic was perfect! Murphy even behaved like Murphy, as she did not go down all the way, so they put up the mist of sparkles to "hide" her from view as the Mark Twain went by. I was perhaps too excited to see something to differently than it was meant to; oh dear. At least it was the 10:30 show!
Anyway, it was just a DELIGHTFUL day to be in the parks. I do still have to meet Tiana, but other than that I've accomplished everything I felt I really had to do at Disneyland. (And never set foot in DCA, true enough...
)
We arrived at Hojo a little after 2 and our room wasn't ready...they pretty much told us to take EVERYTHING out of our car, so we checked everything except our cases of water.
No worries there.I figured it would be cool enough that I could tie my sweatshirt around my waist and wear my trenchcoat over top of it...yeah, nothing doing.
We got into the parks about 2:30. While the sun was out, it was comfortable in short sleeves and thin pants! So we shelled out the $7 (sigh) for a locker. Since we have APs, though, $7 split between 2 people isn't a bad price for admission.
I'm so glad that we went in summer last, because it un-spoiled me, so now the crowds seem downright tiny to me! Main Street/etc. was fairly crowded, but wait times seemed insanely low. When we got in, the board showed Space Mountain at 20 minutes, Indy at 10, Nemo at 20, etc., etc. All the rides that offered Fastpass (with the possible exception of Splash Mountain, which was down when we got in) had plenty of them available well into the evening, which was another pleasant surprise (I was used to them being out for good by early afternoon). Actually, in the case of Space Mountain, we went up the Fastpass line but there was no one to take it so we ended up in the same line as everyone else... Fantasyland was the only thing that was crazy-busy when we went. Small World Holiday had a 45 minute line, but we think part of that may be due to the fact that it had gone down just 30 minutes prior. Anyway, aside from Fantasyland we could do pretty much anything we wanted with no more than 15 minute wait.
The ONLY bad thing was that I lost my LGMH on Indy, less than 2 hours into the park, I think.
I do have a back-up but if that meets the same end then I am going to have a really sad makeshift Mickey head...so if you are in the parks and see a paper Mickey head on someone's bag, it may be me. Early on, we saw Tiana's Showboat Jubilee and I enjoyed it very much. I'm coming to love those songs! It wasn't crowded at all.
AND, I got to see Murphy! Well, I technically saw her twice; "Miss D" and I hung out for the end of the first show, snuck down front and very near-center before fireworks, and then went forward further as people left after the snow. We actually didn't need to be nearly as aggressive as we were to get good seats; the 10:30 show looked a lot less heavily attended and I think we could've sat in the terraced area at 10 if we wanted to.
Fantasmic was perfect! Murphy even behaved like Murphy, as she did not go down all the way, so they put up the mist of sparkles to "hide" her from view as the Mark Twain went by. I was perhaps too excited to see something to differently than it was meant to; oh dear. At least it was the 10:30 show!
Anyway, it was just a DELIGHTFUL day to be in the parks. I do still have to meet Tiana, but other than that I've accomplished everything I felt I really had to do at Disneyland. (And never set foot in DCA, true enough...
)
And it has been cold this week. Barely 60 degrees. The trenchcoat would have never left my body!
