Canadian Buffoon's Solo Disney Vacation - Update 07/08! pp99 - Here today gone tomorrow

[Heluvsme]

But I don't want this to be your last-day-not-counting-travel-day. Can you please take another vacation somewhere, anywhere, so we can keep reading along?

And yes, there can be too much pooh. Remember Nebo's Japan debacle?

My favorite pics of my kiddos are in the dump shop at the Winnie The Pooh ride. I posed them sitting in the stuffed Pooh display, then I told them they were sitting in a pile of pooh. i was the only one laughing.

I have no guesses. I'm guessless, that's not the same as clueless.

Although lately I have felt clueless. Ignorance is bliss, or so I'm told!

Thanks again, and thank you for the points! I was so excited to see my name on the list!

Dawn

 

[GoofyIsAsGoofyDoes]

It's...

The Last Day.


Yuck.

Yuck? That’s it? Yuck? Seems a bit reserved.
In my mind it should have gone down a bit more like this…

I suppose it could be worse. It could be tomorrow.
Travel day.

That’s when it ought’a be more like this one…

Oh my God I GOT WATER ALL OVER THE FLOOR!!!


Oh, for the love of... Am I never going to get used to that?!?!?

Must… get… over… it… Must… get… over… it…

I open the door and...

There it is.

Swinging from the doorknob like a condemned criminal at the end of his noose.

Oh how I hate those hideous things…
Like a final notice to the condemned.

Everything is going smoothly this morning.

Famous last words?

I prevaricated for a couple of seconds.

Ooooo… fancy talk…

Should I stay? Or should I go now?
If I go there will be trouble...

If you stay it will be double…
So come on and let us know…

(had enough?)

Naaa… I like’s me some Clash.
How about a rendition of London Calling?
Or my particular fav… English Civil War.

I dejectedly turn back to the Jazz building.
No time for moping. Gotta hurry.
I pick up the pace.

There’ll be no sashayin’ during this part of the TR.

I see the "go away" papers swinging in the breeze.
Didn't I bring them inside? Thought I had. Whatever.

Didn’t you?

I s l o w l y place my band against the door.
Again. Nothing.
Why? Why now??? I'm in a rush! I don't have time for this!!!

I turn. I trot down the hall and climb one more flight of stairs.
I go to the room above the one I was trying to enter.
Swipe! <click> I'm in!

Weren’t counting the flights during that mad dash I see.
And apparently… you did bring that retched thing in the room.

There's a lesson for you kids.
When trying to enter a hotel room.
Always, always try to do it at your own room.

But imagine the mayhem had it actually worked.

Stupid glasses... gotta get new ones.
These ones are obviously defective now.

Ain’t that a coincidence? Mine keep going on the fritz as well.
I say it’s a conspiracy among the eye glass manufacturers.

Run back to the room <swipe><click!>, grab my glasses

Better defective ones then none at all.

I lost a pair on the first ride of a trip once.
Luckily I wasn’t there solo, but it was frustrating to have to have everything read to me by various members of the traveling party for the entire rest of the stay at WDW.

Eat my road grit, Liver Lips!

Cordiality is an unsustainable luxury when one’s position aboard a resort bus bound for a rope drop is on the line.

The four people ahead of me, the five behind me and I board.
In short order, our practically empty bus sets out for the park...
At the same time as the other sardine-like bus.

Pixy Dust is a bit of an understatement here.
You have been mightily luck with buses during this entire stay.

And we were at the Magic Kingdom by 7:49am.

MK? Aww Shazbot…

A mother and her son asked me if this was the way to 7DMT.
I told her it was one way.

At least they didn’t want you to stop and take their picture.

We exited the bridge and I stuck to the left edge of the walkway and passed a bunch of sashayers.

Channeling Ali again I see.

I got one... ONE blurry picture of Dopey.

I do believe there’s an overly cheap selfie joke in there somewhere but I’ll disregard it for now.

In very little time I was soaring over London again.

PP with no one in the queue is a rarity that cannot in good conscious be passed up.

I exited PP and made sure not to look up or straight ahead.

Good strategy.
Way too early for that kind of foolishness.

I came upon a rope, blocking my progress.

So apparently Liberty Square isn't open for EMH.
Nor is Frontierland.

Thwarted!
I’d have been just a smidgen perturbed by that turn of events.

What to do. What to do...


I glanced up and.... gahhh!!!!

Geez! Don't do that to a guy!

It could be compared to seeing Medusa without the aid of Perseus’s shield.

Bonus question: What's the next ride?

Hummm…
You’ve dropped a mighty interesting set of hints here.
Or are they just so much devious obfuscation?

At the risk of losing points I’m going to go way out on a limb here and say that what you were looking for in your bag was ear plugs. If I’m right then it would be like having Perseus’s shield and you’d be able to survive ISAW (while also remaining close to the closed off sections of the park for that mad dash to come.

And it would certainly qualify as unexpected.

And speaking of bonus questions...

The Contest

Yea, yea…

GoofyIsAsGoofyDoes - 1 point for the harvest, 2 points for asking for points, 1 point for bigger tanks.

But those make up for my lack of vision.
Well… a little bit at least.

Figuring out that picture would have helped more but you can’t win ‘em all

2. And still ongoing... where is that ADR.
(Hint: In MK... and again, not what you'd expect.)
Those unlucky to have picked the wrong park, get a second chance.
Am I not benevolent?

In this instance, Yes… yes you are.
Well, if no one got it yet, that cuts the ADR possibilities down to two.
(three if you add the Dessert party).

I think that a character interaction would be the most unexpected.
That makes it: Crystal Palace.
(either that or Andy has it right.)

3. First attraction visited when the rest of the park opens.
(Hint: It's in the part that opens... Hello!)

I believe I heard you say: “But the plan was BTMRR first, Splash second.”

If you stick to the plan, it must be: Big Thunder

4. I do have FP+s. Three of them. In MK.
Two are for things I've already done at MK this trip.
One is for something new.
Name any or all. It's up to you.

Repeating: 7DMT (to get more pictures), and HM (because it’s just that good)
The new one: You’ve ruled out a whole lot of things, so I’m going to go with: Dumbo
(because that would be unexpected and unexpected has been a theme running through this trip).

Well, except for those of you who play dirty.
(You know who you are.)

I’ve no idea what you’re talking about.

 

[pkondz]

Helo Pkondz, At lest when you were racing the crowds you did not have to worry about leaving the family behind

Meh. Sink or swim (I've done that!) if you can't keep up you get left behind!



Believe me?

1 :- Your next ride is The Barnstormer
2 :- Your ADR is for the Crystal Palace
3 :- Your next ride when the full park opens is Splash Mountin
4 :- Your three fast passes are 7DMT , POTC and BTMR.

Noted.

Have a great weeks on holiday in Toronto

Thanks!

 

[pkondz]

I have no idea on the ride. Pooh?

CP?

Check.

 

[pkondz]

Boo! Not happy about that!

I wasn't overly thrilled either.

When will you men learn to aim! Oh...from the shower...gotcha...

Who said anything about a shower?

Yes please just do it in your own room! NO ONE WANTS TO SEE THAT!

Me thinks the lady doth protest too much.

Maybe he is Bobby's nephew...

That's him!

How did you get in then???

Weren't you paying attention? I snuck in around the side.

Was it cold in there too?

It was a bit nipply.


Nippy.

But you don't have any dignity....or a man card...

And your point????

Or any to start with....

Nope. Gotta call you on that one.
I had my man card for a very short glorious time in one of my last TRs.

You misspelled Woohoo...just pointing out that error...

You're just not gonna let that go until I do something drastic, huh?

Ahhhh!! Damn I forgot to say where it was!! I was going to say at ASMu!
But hey at least my classiness paid off and I recognised the bin!!

True. If anyone was going to guess it I figured it would be you!

And by where it counts you mean everywhere of course!

Of course. I hold you in very high regard, Lyndsay.

Wow how did that happen?? Okay so maybe you really don't what that nameless prize!

Well, no. But it's all you earning those points.

IASW!!!!!!!!!!! It has to be!!

No?

Really?

Oh...

Okay then....Mad Hatter's Tea Party...

Well technically, it is one of the available rides I suppose.

I'm going to say...the Plaza...cause no one said that yet...I don't think...

That's gonna cost you. KathyM2 did guess that before.

Mind out of the gutter...

Erm...Big Thunder

Way to get your mind out of the gutter!!!

First time?

Hmmmm.....
Splash, Space and..........Dumbo??

Noted.

I have no idea who you could possibly be talking to...

Uh, huh. Sure. Of course. Yup.

 

[pkondz]

Wahooo! I got pity points!!! Awesome!!

Well, you asked.

I love the suspense with you getting to 7DMT lol...and your strategy worked out perfectly!!

It really did.
You wouldn't believe how good it felt to see that mass of humanity approaching 7DMT...
And knowing they'd get there after me!

It's really too bad they don't open more of the park for EMH...makes it hard to get all your faves in during that low crowd time.

It took me a little by surprise. I had forgotten that not everything is open during AM EMH.

But you are doing pretty well so far!! I would have gone on PP again if the line was still manageable at that point!!

Shall I consider that as your guess?

 

[pkondz]

Oh the last day blues..... I hate that swingy paper thingy...ding, ding you're time is up, get out.

I know! Is that thing really necessary?
Trust me... I know it's time to go.
Must you rub it in my face?!?!?

Ok, at least I got the Park right! Yea! It's a start

Next ride: Astro Orbiter cuz you want to fly like an Eagle

ADR : Crystal Palace cuz you can't ever have enough Pooh....and friends at DW

First ride when the rest of the park opens : tomorrow land speedway so you can pretend to be SpeedRacer

Fastpasses : BTMRR, Splash, and HM ( edited for short term memory loss)

Noted!

Great update!

Thanks!

I love the pictures of the mine ride.

You do?
I really, really was disappointed with them.
If you want to see some much, much better ones, check out KatMark's TR.


(But then come back here, too. Okay?)

We have yet to do it, but it looks awesome.

It's a fun little ride.
The queue is interesting too.
If you're looking for a thrill ride, this isn't it.
It's more of a quick indoor ride with some outdoors thrown in.

Still fun. Fairly short. But fun.

That was so nice of you to help that mom find the way there.

I thought about telling her to join the rest of the crowd going through the castle...
but I couldn't do it.
Plus, I figured I could take her in a foot race.

I bet it was great to beat the crowd!

Totally made my day.
Actually, it kind of did, right?
If they'd been ahead of me, I wouldn't have had the time to ride other rides.

My guesses are:
Dumbo-ride before the entire park opens.
Splash-ride when park opens
FP-BTMR, HM, Splash
ADR:wishes dessert party (secretly hoping it's this since I want to see pictures and hear if it would be worth it).

Check!

But I don't want this to be your last-day-not-counting-travel-day.

I didn't want it to be either!
It went by so fast!

Can you please take another vacation somewhere, anywhere, so we can keep reading along?

Well I am going to Toronto Monday morning.
I'll think about it. Wasn't really planning on doing too much.

And yes, there can be too much pooh. Remember Nebo's Japan debacle?

Still haven't called the big lug.
Just too busy.
Hopefully now that school is winding down and dance is finished...

My favorite pics of my kiddos are in the dump shop at the Winnie The Pooh ride. I posed them sitting in the stuffed Pooh display, then I told them they were sitting in a pile of pooh. i was the only one laughing.

I would so have said the same thing!

I have no guesses. I'm guessless, that's not the same as clueless.

Okay. Sure. Let's go with that.

Although lately I have felt clueless. Ignorance is bliss, or so I'm told!

I don't know.



See what I did there?


If you say no or you don't get it... You'll probably get bonus points.

Thanks again, and thank you for the points! I was so excited to see my name on the list!

You're welcome!

 

[pkondz]

Yuck? That’s it? Yuck? Seems a bit reserved.
In my mind it should have gone down a bit more like this…

There's a reason why it's just yuck.
Two actually.
1. At the time I was just too busy with the check-in process to really think about it.
It was more of a "yuck" moment.
2. Even now... as I right all this... I'm trying to blank it out of my mind.

That’s when it ought’a be more like this one…

I just might use that on the travel day!

Must… get… over… it… Must… get… over… it…

If we ever meet, I'd like to see you do that to yourself.
You know. For my entertainment and that of others.

Well, not you, obviously.

Oh how I hate those hideous things…
Like a final notice to the condemned.

Noose included.

Famous last words?

Definitely.

Ooooo… fancy talk…

Some of 'dem 'dere times I spake English goodly!

If you stay it will be double…
So come on and let us know…

Naaa… I like’s me some Clash.
How about a rendition of London Calling?
Or my particular fav… English Civil War.

Hmmm..... Not a bad idea....

There’ll be no sashayin’ during this part of the TR.

Ain't got no time for that!
Next update? Sure. But now? Nope!

Didn’t you?

Not so much.

Weren’t counting the flights during that mad dash I see.
And apparently… you did bring that retched thing in the room.

Nope and... yup.
I was so confused to see it there.
I actually thought, "Another one??"
Then convinced myself that I was mistaken about bringing it in.

But imagine the mayhem had it actually worked.

"Harold! There's a strange man here!"
"Millie. Fetch my rifle."


Because a good hillbilly would bring his rifle, wouldn't he?

Ain’t that a coincidence? Mine keep going on the fritz as well.
I say it’s a conspiracy among the eye glass manufacturers.

Planned obsolescence. Designed degradation.

Better defective ones then none at all.

I lost a pair on the first ride of a trip once.
Luckily I wasn’t there solo, but it was frustrating to have to have everything read to me by various members of the traveling party for the entire rest of the stay at WDW.

I just this second decided that from now on I'm bringing back-up glasses with me on trips.
(I actually do... but only on really long ones.)

Cordiality is an unsustainable luxury when one’s position aboard a resort bus bound for a rope drop is on the line.

This is how it works.
I will shove that little old lady out of the way if she gets between me and getting on that bus.
But I'll give up my seat for her once we're on board.

50/50 cordiality/self preservation.

Pixy Dust is a bit of an understatement here.
You have been mightily luck with buses during this entire stay.

Except for the first two end of park days where I waited 20 minutes, it was unreal.

MK? Aww Shazbot…

Sorry, dude.

At least they didn’t want you to stop and take their picture.

That was not going to happen.

Channeling Ali again I see.

Sorry, not following you on that one.
I presume you mean about the bobbing and weaving to get to the front of the pack?

I do believe there’s an overly cheap selfie joke in there somewhere but I’ll disregard it for now.

PP with no one in the queue is a rarity that cannot in good conscious be passed up.

Yep. Gotta take advantage of those situations.

Good strategy.
Way too early for that kind of foolishness.

Just keep the head down and keep on trucking.
Too bad it didn't pay off the next time I went by.

Thwarted!
I’d have been just a smidgen perturbed by that turn of events.

I totally forgot that the entire park wasn't open.
I was like, "What the?..."

It could be compared to seeing Medusa without the aid of Perseus’s shield.

Only worse.

Good analogy, though.

Hummm…
You’ve dropped a mighty interesting set of hints here.
Or are they just so much devious obfuscation?

At the risk of losing points I’m going to go way out on a limb here and say that what you were looking for in your bag was ear plugs. If I’m right then it would be like having Perseus’s shield and you’d be able to survive ISAW (while also remaining close to the closed off sections of the park for that mad dash to come.

And it would certainly qualify as unexpected.

Noted.

I think that a character interaction would be the most unexpected.
That makes it: Crystal Palace.
(either that or Andy has it right.)

Noted.

I believe I heard you say: “But the plan was BTMRR first, Splash second.”

If you stick to the plan, it must be: Big Thunder

Check.

Repeating: 7DMT (to get more pictures), and HM (because it’s just that good)
The new one: You’ve ruled out a whole lot of things, so I’m going to go with: Dumbo
(because that would be unexpected and unexpected has been a theme running through this trip).

Check.

I’ve no idea what you’re talking about.

So glad you and @BibbitybobityLu recognize direct references to yourselves.

 

[courtneybelle]

Last day, already?! that went by too quickly!

I flooded the bathroom at Art of Animation! It must be a value resort thing...

Oh geez. I keep overtaking your TR with personal stories but only because they're so similar to yours.
One time my dad and I were leaving our hotel room at Port Orleans. We were on our way to the food court and I had forgotten something (I don't remember what...appropriately). We got back and my dad was complaining about how something was wrong with his contacts because he couldn't see. He went to take out his contacts...and realized he never put them in in the first place. No wonder he couldn't see. Anyway, back to you.

Ahhhh of course you'd finish with MK. The only way to do it. And Mine Train again!! That's awesome.

I always forget that not all of MK is open for early EMH. I understand why, but it'd be cool if Frontierland was open too.

I'm catastrophically bad at your guessing games but here goes nothing:
You went to Little Mermaid next. Your ADR is at the Crystal Palace (because you lied and cannot have too much Pooh in your life). You visit Big Thunder first. Your FP+s are for HM, Jungle Cruise, and Buzz Lightyear!

Also, you should check out Storybook Circus. It's quite adorable and they have good snacks there!

 

[Steppesister]

There's more to quote... much more. But I'll leave it at this for now:

There. That should keep you busy while I'm gone.
Behave yourselves and play nice.

We always add: Make good choices.

As always, I'm WAY behind. Sometimes I wish I was in front, but you know how it goes. By the time I get back to making the rounds and get to really read this, you'll have another one up, and I'll be 6 pages behind instead of 3. Adieu until Thursday.

 

[LookinUp]

Holy cow! Where did my comments go? Dang those trickster interwebs! Honest to goodness, I've been actually keeping up AND popping in with comments and guesses lately!

Can I have some Irene points - er, pity points - for catching up from being so pathetically behind? And if you're feeling generous, I'll take a few points for guessing the bin photo. I mean, if you are going to be a stickler, then, well, I do must admit that my guess does not in fact show up in a comment before a certain 8-point-winner got her guess in. But I tried! And here are my next tries:

Next ride: Mad Tea Party (You were looking in your bag for a tummy settler. You didn't mention having any breakfast, but just as a precaution, maybe. Or your Mad Hatter hat. Yes? Oh, please let it be the hat. Tee hee!) [Alternate guess, for half-points: Enchanted Tales with Belle. You were looking for a brimmed hat, because there's no shade in line.]

ADR: CP

First attraction when the rest of the park opens: BTMRR

FP+: HM, BTMRR, Splash

OK, now off with these obsolescing glasses and into my magical shrinking PJs.
Happy Toronto-ing this week!

 

[BibbitybobityLu]

Who said anything about a shower?

Maybe it was some golden showers...

Me thinks the lady doth protest too much.

Yeah I'm sure the lady would...

Nope. Gotta call you on that one.
I had my man card for a very short glorious time in one of my last TRs.

Hmmmm.......nope not buying it.

You're just not gonna let that go until I do something drastic, huh?

Probably not!

True. If anyone was going to guess it I figured it would be you!

Well, yeah....

That's gonna cost you. KathyM2 did guess that before.

Oh poop....I mean...OOPS! That was a typo! Clearly I meant Crystal Palace...so....no deductions then?

Right???

Uh, huh. Sure. Of course. Yup.

Good. That's what I thought.

Have a good trip!

 

[GoofyIsAsGoofyDoes]

If we ever meet, I'd like to see you do that to yourself.
You know. For my entertainment and that of others.

Well, not you, obviously.

But Kirk does such a good job of it…
Better just to let him do the entertaining.

Because a good hillbilly would bring his rifle, wouldn't he?

But of course, Mountain etiquette would require such.
It would probably be a shotgun though…
easier to aim when woken up in the middle of the night or while recovering from a hangover.

I just this second decided that from now on I'm bringing back-up glasses with me on trips.
(I actually do... but only on really long ones.)

I learned my lesson on that as well.
I brought three pair this last outing.
(and didn’t lose any of ‘em)

Sorry, not following you on that one.
I presume you mean about the bobbing and weaving to get to the front of the pack?

That was the basic…
but I sould’a done the work to came up with a better analogy though.

So glad you and @BibbitybobityLu recognize direct references to yourselves.

I have no idea what you’re talking about…

 

[Gracefulskinny]

No.
It's worse than that.

It's...



The Last Day.


Yuck.

I suppose it could be worse. It could be tomorrow.
Travel day.

True!

Oh, for the love of... Am I never going to get used to that?!?!?
I'll have one more chance to find out.
My money is on "No", though.

I would so be the same way!

There it is.

Swinging from the doorknob like a condemned criminal at the end of his noose.

I hate that thing. I loathe it with a passion.
I already know my trip is coming to an end.
Do they have to rub it in?!?!?

Though strangely I don't recall getting one. Maybe only those using the magical depress get one.

I guess you could say that this was the one time
when I wish I didn't have a MagicBand.
Because if I didn't, then I'd have my credit card with me!

I turn. I trot down the hall and climb one more flight of stairs.
I go to the room above the one I was trying to enter.
Swipe! <click> I'm in!

There's a lesson for you kids.
When trying to enter a hotel room.
Always, always try to do it at your own room.

Awa! But that's no fun!

Run inside room.
Open safe, grab credit card. Sit on bed to input number.
Can't read the 'frican card! Stupid glasses... gotta get new ones.
These ones are obviously defective now.
And they've been getting more defectiver over the past few years.
Take off glasses, input credit card and... success!
I'm all checked in.
Toss card back in safe, lock it, stuff key back in bag.
I burst out of the room and dash down the hall.
Halfway to the stairs, I slam on the brakes and do a 180.
Run back to the room <swipe><click!>, grab my glasses
and bolt out of the room again.
Hey, at least I figured out why Florida is so blurry that time of day!

Before the overly-stuffed bus has even left,
another one pulls up!

The four people ahead of me, the five behind me and I board.
In short order, our practically empty bus sets out for the park...
At the same time as the other sardine-like bus.

Gotta love when that happens!

Andy mentioned that I had some amazing luck with the busses.
It was no more evident than today!

Someone got the Bus Pixie dust for sure!

I was on the bus at 7:29am. One minute after arriving at the bus stop.
And we were at the Magic Kingdom by 7:49am.

(I can see you now. Some of you are fist pumping for guessing right.
Others are hanging their heads in dismay.)

Others desperately trying to remember past the insanity that has been their life for the past week and remember what they put down in the first place!

Not bad for arriving just seven minutes before rope drop.

Indeed!

As I approached 7DMT, I could see...
Remember that 95% that went straight?
They were all coming to 7DMT.
And they were all going to get there...

Behind me.

And then this one, which I kinda like.

I like it too! Very cool!

It would be awesome if I'd known who that boy was, but... ah well.

And I managed a quick couple of snaps just at the end of the ride.

I exited PP and made sure not to look up or straight ahead.
I was not going to let a certain ride ruin my day.
I kept my head down and turned left.

So apparently Liberty Square isn't open for EMH.
Nor is Frontierland.

I discovered the same thing.

You can only have so much Pooh on one vacation.

So many places I could go with this one!!!!

I could ride the carrousel...
but there's just no way a grown man can ride that by himself
and still maintain a shred of dignity.

Weeeee!!!!!

Geez! Don't do that to a guy!

I quickly looked away.
Gawd I hate that ride.... and that song!
<shudder>

I have found its something you can learn to love.

1. What's the next ride? Anyone guessing any part of the park that's still closed,
since I just told you, gets points deducted!
(Hint: Not one you'd expect.)

Based on your location and your rifling through your camera bag for a necessity to ride along with your statement that it would be unexpected...... I'm going to guess you are looking for ear plugs to go ride It's a Small World for the purpose of getting pictures and killing time.

2. And still ongoing... where is that ADR.
(Hint: In MK... and again, not what you'd expect.)

Tony's

3. First attraction visited when the rest of the park opens.
(Hint: It's in the part that opens... Hello!)

Splash Mountain

4. I do have FP+s. Three of them. In MK.
Two are for things I've already done at MK this trip.

Splash, Big Thunder, Space

 

[Captain_Oblivious]

No.
It's worse than that.

It's...

The Last Day.

Oh my God I GOT WATER ALL OVER THE FLOOR!!!


Oh, for the love of... Am I never going to get used to that?!?!?

Apparently not!

I turn. I trot down the hall and climb one more flight of stairs.
I go to the room above the one I was trying to enter.
Swipe! <click> I'm in!

There's a lesson for you kids.
When trying to enter a hotel room.
Always, always try to do it at your own room.

I'm just trying to imagine what the people on the other side of the door were thinking.

Eat my road grit, Liver Lips!

Time to burn dust here. Eat my rubber!

Andy mentioned that I had some amazing luck with the busses.
It was no more evident than today!
I was on the bus at 7:29am. One minute after arriving at the bus stop.

That's not just amazing luck, that's a horseshoe up your butt.

(I can see you now. Some of you are fist pumping for guessing right.
Others are hanging their heads in dismay.)

Getting any other guesses right depended on getting the park right. It's a killer.

By employing the same crowd edge tactic, I was able to get reasonably close to the front.

I'm guessing this works better if you're not dragging 4 kids around.

As I approached 7DMT, I could see...
Remember that 95% that went straight?
They were all coming to 7DMT.
And they were all going to get there...

Behind me.

("And this is a shot of my nephew, Kyle.
Which is weird because I don't even have a nephew.
And don't know anyone named Kyle.")

I really wish that just once, the ride would stall while I was over London.
Yes, I suppose it would kill the "flying" illusion...
But I'd love to spend more time in there!

I agree! Best scene in the whole ride!

I've still never been to Storybook Circus...
and I didn't feel like breaking my streak.

Tell us how you really feel!

You can only have so much Pooh on one vacation.

Not if you stop at Taco Bell somewhere along the way.

Geez! Don't do that to a guy!

I quickly looked away.
Gawd I hate that ride.... and that song!
<shudder>

Even if it were the only ride open during EMH...you'd be better off getting in line for a different one.

Bonus question: What's the next ride?

Well, judging from the clues, we've narrowed it down to either Fantasyland or Adventureland. I'm going to guess that you were grabbing your camera for some goofy pictures on the Mad Tea Party.

ADR is for... well we haven't gotten there yet, have we?
So lucky you, if you guessed anything outside of MK,
you get a chance to revise your guess.

I'll go with Tony's. Since my first guess was so bad.

Plus, there's that pesky little "Never before seen Disney picture".

It's the inside of a garbage can at ASMU, since I went ahead and read the rest of the chapter.

1. What's the next ride? Anyone guessing any part of the park that's still closed,
since I just told you, gets points deducted!
(Hint: Not one you'd expect.)

Ever get that feeling of deja vu?

Well, judging from the clues, we've narrowed it down to either Fantasyland or Adventureland. I'm going to guess that you were grabbing your camera for some goofy pictures on the Mad Tea Party.

ETA:
Okay, just for those of you who may not know,
DonnaBeeGood has guessed the picture location.
It's the inside of a garbage at ASMU.

That was gonna be my next guess, I swear.

2. And still ongoing... where is that ADR.
(Hint: In MK... and again, not what you'd expect.)
Those unlucky to have picked the wrong park, get a second chance.
Am I not benevolent?
Anyone guessing a previously guessed restaurant.... deductions for you!

Ever get that feeling of deja vu? I'll go with Tony's. Since my first guess was so bad.

Wait, does that count as a previously guessed restaurant? My brain hurts.

3. First attraction visited when the rest of the park opens.
(Hint: It's in the part that opens... Hello!)

Either Liberty Square or Frontierland...let's go with Haunted Mansion.

4. I do have FP+s. Three of them. In MK.
Two are for things I've already done at MK this trip.
One is for something new.
Name any or all. It's up to you.

Splash Mountain
Big Thunder Mountain RR
Space Mountain

I'd try to remember every single ride you've done up to this point, but there are so many TR's and they all run together! Does this happen to anyone else?

 

[afwdwfan]

Swinging from the doorknob like a condemned criminal at the end of his noose.

The "get out" notice.
A chill as if someone is walking over my grave goes down my spine.

Wait a minute. You have one more night, right? I thought that didn't come until the morning you actually check out?

Just about finished checking in and.......
Uh...
I need a credit card to pay for my seat upgrade.

I guess you could say that this was the one time
when I wish I didn't have a MagicBand.
Because if I didn't, then I'd have my credit card with me!

Stupid MagicBand.

I turn. I trot down the hall and climb one more flight of stairs.
I go to the room above the one I was trying to enter.
Swipe! <click> I'm in!

It's the last day and you're still having trouble finding your room?

There's a lesson for you kids.
When trying to enter a hotel room.
Always, always try to do it at your own room.

Or if it isn't yours just keep kicking it until you nearly tear the door off the hinges. We've had it happen at CSR. At 2 am.

Run back to the room <swipe><click!>, grab my glasses
and bolt out of the room again.
Hey, at least I figured out why Florida is so blurry that time of day!

Well, at least you remembered before you got to the park.

Eat my road grit, Liver Lips!

Burn some dust here. Eat my rubber!

But.


Before the overly-stuffed bus has even left,
another one pulls up!

The four people ahead of me, the five behind me and I board.
In short order, our practically empty bus sets out for the park...
At the same time as the other sardine-like bus.

Isn't this the best feeling anyone could ever have at a bus stop? It's like Christmas morning!

I was on the bus at 7:29am. One minute after arriving at the bus stop.

Um... technically it is 16 minutes after arriving. You said you arrived at the bus stop at 7:13. I mean you may not have been standing there the entire time, but...

There were plenty of people clustered near the entrance... but not all the way to the walls.
There was lots of room to walk around the crowd.

This is how close I got:

The benefits of solo park touring! That is awesome!

We exited the bridge and I stuck to the left edge of the walkway and passed a bunch of sashayers.


Now was not the time for sashaying.
Trust me. I know.

He's gone to plaid!

As I approached 7DMT, I could see...
Remember that 95% that went straight?
They were all coming to 7DMT.
And they were all going to get there...

Behind me.

He he... suckers.

My intention was to provide you, dear reader,
with a photo montage of 7DMT.

And that so didn't happen.

I got one... ONE blurry picture of Dopey.

That didn't look like a selfie!

So apparently Liberty Square isn't open for EMH.
Nor is Frontierland.

Hmm... news to me. Is this a recent change?

If he's a real man, he's not contemplating riding the carrousel solo.

No. I can only stand to ride it 1 or 2 times on a given trip with DW and the kids. The rest of the time it's more like "Ok, you guys ride the carousel and I'll go to the FP+ kiosk."

Bonus question: What's the next ride?

1. What's the next ride? Anyone guessing any part of the park that's still closed,
since I just told you, gets points deducted!
(Hint: Not one you'd expect.)

I have some guesses. But the camera is throwing me off. I think you did that intentionally and I applaud the effort. And my first guess is totally something that I kind of would expect you to do with a few minutes to spare in Fantasyland. Especially after your first day in MK. And you'd likely want the camera for it. So I guess I'll lock in my guess that you met Ariel.

2. And still ongoing... where is that ADR.
(Hint: In MK... and again, not what you'd expect.)
Those unlucky to have picked the wrong park, get a second chance.
Am I not benevolent?
Anyone guessing a previously guessed restaurant.... deductions for you!

(Maybe not that benevolent.)

Well, I didn't pick the wrong park, but you'd better still take my second pick of Tony's Town Square. Or else, I'll... well, do absolutely nothing.

3. First attraction visited when the rest of the park opens.
(Hint: It's in the part that opens... Hello!)

BTMRR - and there's no way that's right unless you set us up with a total gimme. But I'll go with it.

4. I do have FP+s. Three of them. In MK.
Two are for things I've already done at MK this trip.
One is for something new.
Name any or all. It's up to you.

HM, PoTC, Jungle Cruise

There. That should keep you busy while I'm gone.
Behave yourselves and play nice.

Do we have to? That's no fun!

Well, except for those of you who play dirty.
(You know who you are.)

Ok, so it's just the status quo then!

 

[afwdwfan]

This so stressful!! So LTT is wrong? Andy is really good at this so I'll stick with it.

It looks like he explained it, but yes, LTT was my first guess and was wrong. I think it pretty much has to be CP or Tony's at this point. I flipped a coin and went with Tony's.

Yes please just do it in your own room! NO ONE WANTS TO SEE THAT!

 

[KatMark]

I hate those stupid things hanging on the door...way to put a black mark on our vacation.

Well, it looks as if it was a GOOD thing you didn't have your CC and had to go back or you'd have been on a really crowded bus.

Nice move on getting close to the wall; I do that often and then all those "clustered" are still in after me.

Nice pic of your nephew on the Mine Ride.

I don't think I've ever heard anyone being "stopped" on Peter Pan. I wonder if it has ever happened???

Nice picture of the Tangled tinkle spot.

Yes, no go for Adventureland, Frontierland during EMH's in the a.m.

I'm going to say you end up riding It's a Slow Boat to China just because you were there. I'll say your ADR is at Crystal Palace because you REALLY love Pooh; first attraction After that part of the park opens is Splash Mountain and I will say that your 3 FP+s are for Winnie-the Pooh, Haunted Mansion and Jungle Cruise.

And Andy always plays dirty.

 

[TGM]

Hmmm..

Your next attraction, (I would say HM, but you said something I wouldn't expect), so POTC.

My second guess for your ADR is Tony's Town Square.

FP+ is probably HM, JC, and Space Mountain.

 

[orangecats2]

Small World
Crystal Palace
BTMRR
Jungle Cruise, HM, BTMRR

Of course Andy plays dirty, it's how he's in the lead! He must really want that chocolate! And Lu just talks dirty!

When you said about "Eat my road grit, liver lips" all I could think about was 'Kiss my grits'! (Can't remember how to copy and paste on the laptop)

I can't believe you went back to MK! Being devious again!

I heard all the subway lines in Toronto are closed. Hope that you weren't planning on riding or they are fixed for you. Wait a minute!!! Maybe it was you that broke them!