Now here we are, a group of tiara-ed ladies standing in front of Haunted Mansion wondering where our fast pass runners have gone too.
And I wonder--
I wah-wah-wah-wah-wonder,
Why,
Why, why, why, why, why she ran away,
Yes, and I wonder,
A-where she will stay-ay,
My little runaway,
Run, run, run, run, runaway.
We kept trying to get a hold of them, but Steph and Amy Sue seemed to have vanished off of DLR property. Phone calls going straight to voice mail, and text messages going un read. WTH? Did they up and leave with our APs and tickets? Did they decide they can cover more of the park alone? Or was one of us so stinky and rude that they couldn't bear to be around anymore? Kinda made us all wonder where the heck they were.
Mystery solved.....they snuck onto Pirates of the Caribbean thinking they could get an extra ride in before the pokie walkers made it over to the meeting place. But we fooled them, we walked with some purpose. So what to do? Wait for them to get the Haunted Mansion, or tell them to meet us at the exit? It was the latter. We jumped in line and were heading down the elevator before you could say "Steph and AmyWho?"
When the crypt goes creak,
And the tombstones quake.
Spooks come out for a swinging wake.
Happy haunts materialize,
And begin to vocalize.
Grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize.
Finally our fast pass runners meet up with us at the Haunted Mansion exit.
Guess what? They have no fast passes for us! Now ain't that a kick in the
pants. Before I move on I will let you re read Amy Sue's rebutle.
Actually, Steph who is much younger than I and in far better physical shape than I was kind of sprinting and I had to ask her to slow down a little. Pretty sad, but true. I might have gasped out, "could we slow down a little, I'm old".
But, we were NOT ditching. We really weren't. When we left the crowd seen last in a muddle near IASW, no one seemed to be particularly moving. It was inaction by committee!! Or so it seemed.
So, we dashed to IJ, with me holding Steph back with my puffing..and IJ was down. We failed in our mission and were so sad and downtrodden that when we saw that the line at POTC was SO short, the temptation was so great and we needed a little pick-me-up after our total failure to bring home the FP's, I was weak, Steph is blameless!! (taking one for the team there, Steph). So shoot me, went on POTC without you. Nanananananana..pppllltttt!!!
It was interesting to find that only parts of POTC have cell phone signal as Steph was feeling all guilty and madly texting our explanation!!!
I'm thinking she wasn't even blaming me!!
Sorry. And Oops!! To make matters worse, I had Michelle's pass and she didn't make it to HM with you guys. Worked out since she was going to BB...
Looking forward to your take on our ditching!!!
AmySue
At this point we "thin the herd" and my roomies and I are off on our own
again. We grab fast passes for Big Thunder and then decide to take a trip
around the park on the train.
After our grand circle tour of the park, we hop off at New Orleans Square. Some ladies will be going to a wonderful lunch at Blue Bayou, while the others will be feeding at some counter service. I was with the counter service group.
Amy Sue, Cristabel and I decided on eating at Stage Door Cafe. Sorry, we were pretty hungry so there are no pics of our meal. I will say that Cristabel had the chicken strips and fries, Amy had the mozzerella sticks and apple slices, while I choose the mozzerella sticks with fries. Healthy I know. It was all good greasy fun. Filling and yummy.
While sitting around waiting for the Blue Bayou group to be done, we did what anyone else in our position would have done. We gave ourselves tattoos. Yep, right there at our umbrella table.
Before the trip I found these adorable "tattoo" pens and stencils. So we tatted up and had some great fun doing it. After our tat session, we jumped on over to the Jungle Cruise.
Its classic. Plus we had a great skipper. He did all the corny jokes that one
expects from that ride. And he tossed in a few others. And he didn't point out how silly we looked. So all was good. The best was that he showed us the back side of water. How cool is that?
Before meeting back up with Michelle and Steph, we grabbed more fast passes for Indy. Thankfully we had planned ahead and had their passes with us to do so.
Makes it easier for when we hang out later. After meeting back up with them, we then decided to hop over to California Adventure to see what was shaking over there.
We wandered over to Soarin, but the line was huge, and the fast pass return
wasn't until quite late. So no go. We did finally get Steph to see the Muppets 3-D though. Can't believe she had never seen it. She was one of the "bingo" squares at the meet and greet.
I am not a Tower of Terror gal, but two in our group were way up for it. So we grabbed fast passes for them and then headed to the other side of the park to ride Toy Story Midway Mania.
Amy Sue, Cristabel, Michelle, Steph and I all decided to do the single rider
line. It was a pretty short wait for all of us to be able to ride. I
unfortunately got put with a family, and the father I was sitting next to did
not seem to happy about it. Oh well. He was probably just put out that I bet him. Granted, I am still a beaver, but my score out did his.
I was on top of the world
it was right in my pocket
I was living the life
things were just the way they should be
When from out of the sky like a bomb comes some little punk in a rocket
now all of a sudden some strange things are happening to me
We still had a bit of time to kill before their fast passes were ready, so we
checked out some of the shops and took a few silly pics in front of the
construction walls.
I was rather surprised at the map I guess.
Amy Sue and Michelle took their fast passes and went on Tower of Terror.
Cristabel, Steph and I decided to chill out and relax in the animation building.
Lucky for us we sat on the comfy couch. I love watching all those clips from
the movies and hearing the music from them as well. Always puts a smile on my face. Unfortunately, I started getting a migraine. UGH! But that didn't stop us from shopping a bit at Greetings from California first.
Next up......"A surprise in the pot pie"
And since you are so good at it....... I nominate you to do one for June.
I cannot believe you took a pic of it. 
