MarkMichaels
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Today, Sunday March 16th, we tried our hand at EE or EMH, whatever, for the first time. My family is not known for waking up so I've been hesitant to try this, but today everyone was up bright and early at 7am. I had posted a question as to where to grab a quick breakfast for this morning and we ended up getting some great pastries at the Bakery in MK Saturday night and saved them for this morning.
EE was ok, not sure I would want to make the kids get up that early all the time. We only got 2 rides in before the park opened to everyone, Space Mountain and Buzz. Rode Splash and Big Thunder then returned to Space Mountain to use a fast pass and leave the park around 11. Not sure if its just us, but Splash was getting folks alot wetter than any of us remembered. When we left, the crowds seemed to be coming in pretty strong.
We went to the snack bar at the Contemporary for lunch, we always seem to end up there and love the food. The Contemp has a much better snack bar than the Poly in our opinion, especially the chili cheese fries. It was however, much more expensive than we remember, $40 for 2 burgers a pizza and kids meal.
We had no plan for the afternoon (which is tough for me, I tend to be the anal planner of the family, and yes our trip is on a spreadsheet that we carry with us at all times) so I let the kids decide between another park or swimming at the pool. It was pretty overcast today and not real warm out, but they still wanted to swim, I can't blame them, the slide is reallly cool. After a couple hours of that we had our Caddyshack moment. All we needed was Bill Murry to show up in a sterile white suit to start cleaning the pool. On that note, we decided it was a good time to shower do something else. Our plans were to go to the AP event that was being held at MGM, but we had a few hours to kill so we ended up going for a drive to find something different for supper. We ended up at a place called Race Rock and it was excellent. The monster truck Bigfoot was on display along with a bunch of dragsters, nascars, jet boats, race motorcycles, etc. I would highly recommend this for any auto enthusiast. Price was very resonable and the food was really good.
After supper, we headed to MGM and it started raining, hard. We got to MGM around 7 even though the last I knew, MGM closed at 7 and the event started at 8. Upon arrival we are told that the hours have changed and the park is open until 7:30 and the AP event would start right then. Since we had 30 whole minutes of park time, we got on Star Tours with a couple other people before heading over to RnR and TT for the AP event. At about 7:45 they finally stopped letting non AP holders ride and it was great! We rode RnR 6 or 7 times with 0 wait. (except for the preshow, you would think if nobody is in the que you could skip that) TT was just as quiet, only rode that once though since my son hates it. The new drop sequence was great, this was far better than we remember it. At about 9 they opened the park up to cheerleaders. Nothing against cheerleaders, but we went from walking right on the front car at RnR to actually having to wait 5 minutes. I guess they started letting the cheerleaders go thru the standby line and AP holders got to use the FP line. Pretty sure the rain kept the crowds down and we loved every bit of it.
Tomorrow we head to Epcot in the morning and fantasmic at night.
Last thoughts for the day- We'll be leaving the Poly in a few days to check in at the Hard Rock. Every line we got in today (except for at the AP event) we kept thinking, man I wish we had FOTL access. Even during EE when we waited 15 minutes for space mountain. Also, although we really do love the Poly, it just doesn't seem as magical this time. Nothing special has happened this time, no towel animals, no extra special moments, nothing. Maybe tomorrow...
Mark
EE was ok, not sure I would want to make the kids get up that early all the time. We only got 2 rides in before the park opened to everyone, Space Mountain and Buzz. Rode Splash and Big Thunder then returned to Space Mountain to use a fast pass and leave the park around 11. Not sure if its just us, but Splash was getting folks alot wetter than any of us remembered. When we left, the crowds seemed to be coming in pretty strong.
We went to the snack bar at the Contemporary for lunch, we always seem to end up there and love the food. The Contemp has a much better snack bar than the Poly in our opinion, especially the chili cheese fries. It was however, much more expensive than we remember, $40 for 2 burgers a pizza and kids meal.
We had no plan for the afternoon (which is tough for me, I tend to be the anal planner of the family, and yes our trip is on a spreadsheet that we carry with us at all times) so I let the kids decide between another park or swimming at the pool. It was pretty overcast today and not real warm out, but they still wanted to swim, I can't blame them, the slide is reallly cool. After a couple hours of that we had our Caddyshack moment. All we needed was Bill Murry to show up in a sterile white suit to start cleaning the pool. On that note, we decided it was a good time to shower do something else. Our plans were to go to the AP event that was being held at MGM, but we had a few hours to kill so we ended up going for a drive to find something different for supper. We ended up at a place called Race Rock and it was excellent. The monster truck Bigfoot was on display along with a bunch of dragsters, nascars, jet boats, race motorcycles, etc. I would highly recommend this for any auto enthusiast. Price was very resonable and the food was really good.
After supper, we headed to MGM and it started raining, hard. We got to MGM around 7 even though the last I knew, MGM closed at 7 and the event started at 8. Upon arrival we are told that the hours have changed and the park is open until 7:30 and the AP event would start right then. Since we had 30 whole minutes of park time, we got on Star Tours with a couple other people before heading over to RnR and TT for the AP event. At about 7:45 they finally stopped letting non AP holders ride and it was great! We rode RnR 6 or 7 times with 0 wait. (except for the preshow, you would think if nobody is in the que you could skip that) TT was just as quiet, only rode that once though since my son hates it. The new drop sequence was great, this was far better than we remember it. At about 9 they opened the park up to cheerleaders. Nothing against cheerleaders, but we went from walking right on the front car at RnR to actually having to wait 5 minutes. I guess they started letting the cheerleaders go thru the standby line and AP holders got to use the FP line. Pretty sure the rain kept the crowds down and we loved every bit of it.
Tomorrow we head to Epcot in the morning and fantasmic at night.
Last thoughts for the day- We'll be leaving the Poly in a few days to check in at the Hard Rock. Every line we got in today (except for at the AP event) we kept thinking, man I wish we had FOTL access. Even during EE when we waited 15 minutes for space mountain. Also, although we really do love the Poly, it just doesn't seem as magical this time. Nothing special has happened this time, no towel animals, no extra special moments, nothing. Maybe tomorrow...
Mark
