So where did I leave off?
Oh yes, I was leaving EnginEars without my cell phone.
Well, Christine and Stacie had time for one more ride before they had to leave for the airport. We decided to try Monsters, Inc. It was about a 15 minute que, so we went for it. While we were in line, Stacie's cell rang. She said, "Callie, your cell phone is calling me!"

Turns out it was a CM at EnginEars and they found my phone there.

So after the ride, I was able to go pick it up and then as we exited the park, we said goodbye and a big

to Christine since she was the one who actually won the TSMM preview for us! Stacie said she'd be back after she dropped Christine off at the airport and meet up with us in DL.
So Alison, Kendall and I headed into DL. Immedaitely we could tell the crowds had thinned a bit. We went straight to the Tiki Room for a Dole Whip and watched the show while we ate. Then we grabbed a FP for BTMRR, and then we rode Pirates. While we were on the ride, I decided it would be a good time to pull out my expired Dream FP's that I had brought from previous trips to see if they would work. I had ones from November, '07 that still had plenty of tabs left on them. The CMs took them with no problem! Didn't even look twice at them. We were able to ride Splash and the stand-by que was still over 60 minutes long!

Stacie called me as we were going down Slippin' Falls on the ride to say she was parking in the Timon Lot.
We had to run to meet Stacie b/c the parade was about to start and she was in Tomorrowland. We barely made it across Main Street before they blocked it off, and ended up meeting her over by Buzz and then rode with FPs we grabbed earlier, then Star Tours and after that we got on Space with my expired DFP's. It was about this time we all realized we were starving! None of us had really eaten (except for Dole Whips) since that early lunch at WWS. We decided to have ice cream for dinner, so we headed to Gibson Girl.
It was about 25 minutes before fireworks were going to start and I decided to tell Stacie that my dream for the trip was to solve the long-time Disboards debate of whether Storybook Canal Boats are closed during the Fireworks or not. I have read conflicting reports for a long time about this. Some posters have reported being able to watch the fireworks while actually sitting on a boat, in the canal. Others have reported back that it is impossible to do that because they close the ride during fireworks.
So we headed around the Matterhorn (they had already closed off the castle and Alice side of Matterhorn) to get to Storybook. The line actually looked decent. I told Stacie the girls to go ahead and get in line while I talked to the CM at the exit. She confirmed that the ride does stay open during fireworks and that if you are on the ride at the time they start, the skipper will stop the boat in the canal for the entire show. I then asked her about how long she thought the que was. She said she thought it looked like about 10 minutes. Perfect!

I qued up with the girls and waited (not very patiently) to see if we would be lucky enough to get on for the show. As we were in line we overheard the most hilarious conversation between three older lades (probably in their late 60's). One of them was asking if they still had that show with Mickey as the Sorcerer and the other two were saying no, they don't have it anymore. Then they were trying to figure out the name. What was it? Fasmics? Fantoms? Oh what was it called? Fantasmo! Yeah, that's it, Fantasmo! I can't believe they got rid of that show. It was so good.

Kendall was begging me to let her fill them in. Stacie and I were seriously cracking up. We decided to leave them with their fond memories of Fantasmo! May it rest in peace.
The line seemed to be moving a lot slower than the CM expected, and it wasn't looking good for us to get on the ride before they started RDCT. Would we be left standing in the que watching while the canal boats sailed away?
(ok, so it's not really the finale . . . I have to do some real work and I'll let you know how it all turned out later).
