When Are We Going To DTD? Week 10 Part 2
Friday October 17
Today I woke up at a decent time, around 10! I made myself some breakfast and had a nice chat with Jessie. I've said this before but I will say it again I never see my roommates, normally it is in passing. Our conversation led to pillow pets and she told me how they have a ham one. The struggle right now! When I got down here in August I said I was going to buy the pumba one, it goes with my simba and it makes since. Well now they have ham and he would match my new blanket rather nicely. Warning for Ma: don't be surprised if I come home with both of them.
Michael, krista and Amelia had fastpasses this morning at Epcot. So I hung out at the apartment until later when I would meet them over at animal kingdom. In the meantime I went to pick up at package from Gma at the clubhouse. It was packed with banana bread and my water camera memory card.
And some free “sorry you had bed bugs” groceries
Around 1 I got ready and headed off to animal kingdom to meet up with my crew. It was literally the perfect weather for animal kingdom today. Not to hot and not to cold, I was loving it!
Amelia came and found me first. We made our way to festival of the lion king. We had fifteen minutes to get there. On the way there we passed Brittany and Gina. We briskly walked and made it with time to spare. It was a happening place. So we got placed in the warthog section. All was good in the fotlk because all 4 tumble monkeys were there!
After lion king we headed for the safari, it said 30 minutes so we jumped in line. Little did we know the lie that Disney was telling us, we waited forever and there aren't even poachers! We were getting ripped off. We waited a good 1-1.5hour for our 2 week safari. During that time Amelia was not a fan of us calling her a poacher and this is when they learned about Mickey to Mickey. When someone is crabby with someone else you place your magic bands together (or mickey to mickey) until you are both happy.
Next up was yeti time! Alish taught me the curl up into a ball during the backwards part and it's always a thrilling time. Amelia believes that it goes upside down and she wouldn't take no for an answer. I was pretty much peeing my pants laughing so hard because it doesn’t go upside down.
After Everest we walked over to the death ride aka primeval. Amelia was tall enough and has been waiting to ride it. I like to let myself become a limp noodle and fly all over the place...sorry Michael.
This ride literally hurts and that’s what makes it funny.
We then did dinosaur. Let's just talk about how once again the big Dino with the picture was not there. I just don't understand?! Why is it not there?
It was that time of night when we try to figure out where to eat. Pizzafari was out of the question, so we headed to the old yak and yeti quick service. They got ride of my lo mien so I went with the sweet and sour chicken which was still really good. Then on top of that I got a Huge coke because that's all the restaurant had. Which we found out was all pretty much ice.
With our stomachs full it was time to relax and watch its tough to be a big. It's been awhile since I've seen it. However our seats were wet and I blamed everyone for having accidents. Too much liquids were consumed at yak and yeti!
It was starting to get dark so we headed back to Everest for one last ride. It was my first time ever at AK at night and it was pretty exciting. The atmosphere is really nice.
We headed to the front of the park and thought it would be a real fun idea to play hide and seek. More like I thought it would be fun. This is when my obsession with playing hide and seek around the parks started.
We left shortly after and headed to AKL! Time for me to check out the villa. First off what’s with the wind tunnel AKL? The rooms are real classy, its no value resort. We spent our time out on the balcony over looking the animals. We could pretty much only see our favorite cows with antlers, I still don’t know what there called something cattle. We spent a really long time out on the balcony, Michael played some ak music loops while Amelia kept asking when we were going to go to dtd. And for some reason we thought it was the funniest thing. And I will still laugh if someone asks “When are we going to downtown Disney?”
We moved the party inside and then we decided it was probs a good time to head to dtd. So we had to walk down the long hallway that never ended to get the lobby and then out to the bus. The bus ride was more than entertaining. Michael is all disney classy living with the dvc points so while we passed pop century he laughed at my poorness and my value resort trips. Haters gonna hate. He said that he wasn't laughing at me, it was because I was laughing…lies
We got to dtd and it was a party! Of course it was it was Friday. I tried to dodge all my coworkers as we jumped from store to store. Co op was a popular store. The kitchen area alone is everything I want! Amelia got a Vera for her birthday gift so we spent the time to pick out just the right pattern bag. She first picked up the mini hipster but changed her mind wanting the regular hipster. A cm saw this and said that it was just the age and understood what they were going through. So while Krista= and Amelia went back to the Vera's the cm talked to Michael about that age and attitude. As we walked away he just said "I'm not the father" awkward!
Next was WOD, the store was a crazy house. It gives me anxiety, which is strange because when I work in there or dtd in general the crowds don't get to me but when I'm there as I guest I can't stand it. It's probably for the reason that I have places to be.
We eyed up some merchandise and then headed to basin. Oh basin! The hand scrub is heaven. I like to get the skeptics of the hand scrub to love basin and I did my good deed tonight. Michael was a skeptic but I caught him enjoying the softness of his hands afterwards throughout the night. That hand scrub is some legit stuff!
We made our way to the Christmas store where we found out that Elsa was taking over the small shop connected to it, which for right now is the nightmare before Christmas shop. The frozen take over really needs to be done! Go away Elsa! Our last stop for the night was the art of Disney.
The marketplace was about to close so we planned the next day. A nice early morning at studios followed by a night in the kingdom until midnight. We parted ways and I literally just made it to my bus in time.
When I got home Brittany was there hanging out reading. And then we stayed up the whole night/ morning watching Deal With It. It probably wasn't the best idea staying up but I couldn't sleep tonight.
Saturday October 18
Today I woke up to a text from Michael saying they were up and moving. How I woke up to that one and not the one from alish beats me but it’s a good thing I did. I had 30 minutes to get ready to catch the bus. Mission accomplished!
I made it to studios before them so I hung out in the front of the park. They had to stop at blizzard before so while I waited Michael and I planned a whole frozen world for the frozen take over. I’m gonna put it in the suggestion box.
I then was stopped by a cm to take a survey by the time I finished they were standing in front of me. We headed down sunset boulevard and got in line for tot. Time see them ghosts. We got prime seating and I got to experience another group of people's first time seeing them ghosts.
We then headed to a personal favorite, animation academy! There was quite the line today so the cm had us play some Disney villain trivia. He was all about his job, Give that man a gold star! When it was our turn we drew eeyore, not the best character but we were still up for the challenge.
Afterwards Amelia refused to show us her drawing and hide it in her bag for the whole day. Which brought on some more Mickey to Mickey’s
Next it was time to visit a glitch and bad guy. I’m a huge wreck it Ralph fan and have yet to meet them at studios. It was perfect since Big Hero will be taking over their spot soon.
Vanellope snubbed me because I was the odd ball who doesn’t belong in the family.
We then headed to star tours. I love me some Star Wars weekend! However I was mad that I wasn't the rebel spy.
After star tours we went to get some food. Why not visit my roommate Zoe at the backlot express. I ordered my food and she spotted me telling the girl that I needed a magical moment so she went over and got me a Halloween cupcake. MY FAVORITE DISNEY CUPCAKE! I was so excited. I failed at eating today and literally ate maybe 3 chicken nuggets. So I got a box and now I had dinner.
After lunch we headed over to oakens, which is now in a new location from the last time I went too. We walked in, went to the gift shop, I tried to talk mike into putting on the Olaf hat but did not succeed and we left. Bye frozen! It hasn’t been fun.
We stopped in front of toy story mania and decided to see voyage of the little mermaid. After Ariel we headed to the great movie ride. Our tour guide was not impressed with her job it seemed. Thanks for ruining my vacation…now you get a point.
We called it quits at studios and headed over to mk to see my BAES! On the bus ride over I got into a Facebook "fight" with Michael cause he lied to the whole internet about being at mk when we clearly were not.
When we got to mk we picked up some magic cards and headed over to adventureland. We did some major creeping on Aladdin and jasmine, there line was closed so we went to the tiki room. I got a text from alish saying when her next sets were. So we left tikis and jumped in line for Aladdin and Jasmine.
It was definitely a party in Agrabah! Jasmine was all sorts of talkative today and it was probs the best character meet and greet so far. Plus me and Aladdin are pretty tight now.
As we left I realized I left my chicken nuggets in the queue. I’ve been carrying them around all day! How could I forget them?! So I was the awkward person asking the character attendant for it. Casual Sam...welcome to my life.
From there we headed over to splash mountain and waited in the longest line ever. By the time we got on I was not feeling the whole lets get wet thing.
All hail the chicken nugget! (Too bad you can’t see the chicken nugget, but its there!)
My left side was drenched so we dryed off with a ride on thunder. The line wasn't as long. I learned about scuttles...I don't really know what they were called. SCUPPERS. And in return I told them all about the goat effect, it's definitely the wildest ride in the wilderness!
After thunder we headed to fantasyland. We made a pit stop at the tangled restroom where Amelia refused to kingdom dance with me under the floating lanterns. I was heartbroken and I even told her I would be Flynn and she could be rapunzel but she still refused. So instead we played hide and seek! We won that round. Michael couldn't find us but Krista did.
They had mine train fastpasses but we had time to kill so we decided philharmagic was a good choice. There I reenacted a picture for miss sue. It's the new look!
I had the cutest child sitting next to me. All he wanted out of life was to catch Donald. There were many times I thought he was going to fall right out his seat.
They had about 15 minutes before their fastpass so we headed over to mine train. The fastpass line was long and a crabby Michael was coming out. Someone was getting a point, dear cm’s watch out for your record cards.
They got in line and I hung out and played another game of hide and seek. But really I just found a seat where they left me. Once they got off they were unimpressed with the shortness of the ride. Michael told me how he sat next to a lady who was rich enough to have their own personal tour guide. He said he felt poor because of her. How the tables have turned, that’s what happens when you judge someone about the value resorts.
We headed to get some grub for dinner, cosmic rays it was. I had my left over’s so I found a table and might I add the only clean table. But I chose the wrong table because it had a history with a code v. I’ve only ever heard of the story I did not know it took place at that table.
After dinner we discussed the CoP. Amelia was once again shooting down the idea so we went to the laugh floor. There we had another Mickey to Mickey time out. We shouldn’t even be surprised. It was a little funny this time but not by much. Afterwards we told Amelia that since we did laugh floor that we were going to do CoP. However it getting late and doing CoP would waste a lot of our time since the park was only open until 12. So the crabbiness set in and we got in line for buzz. Forever trying to max out but I'm more than half way there.
It was about 10:30 when we headed back to Main Street to get over to adventureland. There were people everywhere lining up, so I checked the park hours just in case...mk was actually open until 2am. This changed the whole night because we had 2 extra hours. Game on disney.
So instead we walked down a crowded Main Street to meet Mickey. However when we got there the line was like 45 minutes so we walked through the emporium to adventureland. Mental note don’t try to get down main street while 1) everyone’s leaving after wishes 2)when people are lining up for another showing of celebrate the magic.
The pirate wait said 20 minutes but it was looping outside so we all know that's a lie. We’re not falling for it again Disney. So we walked to frontierland where we found ourselves at country bears. I haven’t done the country bears in FORVER. It was one of those attractions Ma use to force us to do when we were little. There was less than 12 minutes and we were almost certain we would get our own viewing.
Do you ever just lay on the ground at country bear…cause same.
But by the time we got let in there was a good amount of people. I was a little excited about country bears it's been forever and Brittany refuses to go with me. I was honored that they chose to sit through this with me and accept my occasional outbursts. So much love for those creepy bears.
Also the country bears literally gave me this huge rush of energy but that slowly ran out by the time we got over to pirates.
We went on pirates. The only thing I didn't want was to be in the front, so of course we got the front. No one believed me that you get soaked on the drop now but once we went down that drop they believed me.
After pirates we went on thunder for one more round of goat effect. It never gets olds. We left frontierland and it was time for emh. This is the time when I cheat this Disney system.
We headed over to haunted mansion where they started scanning magic bands. We split up in 2s for this that way I can pretend that I was staying at the resort with them, plus I also brought a magic band. It worked and on we went. I had a nice stare off with a haunted mansion cm in the stretching room.
We hung out not knowing where to go so we walked over to fantasyland where we found ourselves on the happiest cruise that ever sailed. There was a slight outburst for country bears...haters gonna hate
This happiest cruise put me to sleep. At this point I was pretty sure I wasn't going to make it any longer. I had almost given up during EMHs.
We then checked the wait times, mine train said 30 minutes. We walked over there and it was no 30 minutes. Plan ruined onto pooh. But let's be real poohs no country bear!
After pooh we walked like zombies over to tomorrowland where I believe that they should have a different themed country bear show for each different land in the mk. I'm gonna put it in the suggestion box. We got to space, with no sign of Brittany. I hit the wall of "let me just sleep on the magic kingdom floor for tonight" but thanks to space I was jerked around like chicken and woken up. There was still a half hour left.
We headed to the hub and took some classy pictures. I was on a roller coaster called sleep deprivation. One minute I'm a walking zombie the next I just want to skip around the kingdom and never leave. We headed to the emporium where I left shortly after to catch my bus. Peace out country bears.
I walked over to bay lake and caught my bus I didn't get home till around 3. Brittany still wasn't home, she got stuck working the tragic hours. I pretty much passed out cold.
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