torsie24
Mummy to a perfect princess.
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I started the day with my usual bus stop photo:
Jack tutted with each one I took. But who's laughing now! I think it's a nice start to a day's photos!
We arrived at opening time and headed (just like everyone else did) straight to Soarin' although we did find time for a couple of SE photos as it was t first we'd seen it properly.
We grabbed FPs for Soarin' (which we never did use so are now in my scrapbook) and walked straight on. We both loved the ride, but Jack doesn't think it's worth all the hype it gets. We were in the back row though, so maybe next time we'll ask for the front.
After Soarin' I was excited for Living with the Land as it had been scheduled to be closed our whole trip but had re-opened early. We both really enjoyed this ride. Lots of photos were taken!
We then headed over to The Seas, stopping for the obligatory photos first of course!
Oh my gosh, we LOVED the clam ride!! I literally had goosebumps from the Nemo guys swimming in there, I just thought it was so magical. Eeee I love it.
I made a beeline for the Manatees when we got in there as I'd have a very brief glimpse of them from backstage on our wedding planning day. I stood for ages watching them, they are just so amazing.
Then we found Nemo!
We were ages looking at all the different sea life. We loved the big turtle in the huge tank. We loved watching him swim round so peacefully. Did you know he used to be in with the dolphins, but they learned they could push him with their noses and send him whizzing round the tank, which they found great fun, but not Mr Turtle, so he got put in the other tank.
He looks very happpy in there now.
We headed out of the Seas and onto Spaceship Earth. We didn't really know what to expect, but really enjoyed SE, especially the glimpse into our future! Hee hee.
Next up we headed over to Test Track, but the line was pretty big and the fast pass only 45 minutes away so we grabbed a couple and decided to give Mission Space a try.
I was pretty nervous as there are a lot of threads on the DIS about people who don't like MS because of the small cabin. And I cannot handle spinning at all (teacups make me feel off for a long while) so we chose the green team. Which had a much shorter line than the orange!
I was a littler nervous, but once we were in the actual waiting room bit I'd calmed down. It's a shame I can't say that for one of our fellow rides.
When we got put onto our 1-4 numbers we were with a dad and is son, and the son was already pretty uneasy. His Dad was saying over adn over to him "it'll be fine, it's fine" but it wasn't really helping. I gave Jack a look to say "I don't think he should go on this".
So we get on the ride and the little boy gets a bit more uneasy. Then the cabin closes and it esclates again. By the time we had blasted off we were into full on "I don't like it" screams. The poor boy was well and truly trapped now.
Jack and I tried our best to make it fun, laughing gently and never making surprised noises etc. But it was really hard worrying that this kid was hainvg a breakdown. The worst bit was he had the button that made us go hyperspeed or do something lous and shaky, so his button lit up, and his dad leant over and pushed it and the noise and shaking started and the poor little boy just started screaming "DADDY - WHY DID YOU DO THAT?"
It was a little bit funny, but the poor boy. The thing is if he hadn't been worked up befor we got on the ride really is pretty tame, so we recon that when he got off he may have re-evaluated the ride and decided he was overreacting and maybe had another go later. We jsut saw it a few times on our trip where the parents were clearly uneasy about how their kids were going to be, so started going "you'll be fine, it's not scary, you'll be fine" to them in the line, and they were always the ones who freaked out. I think they picked up on the parent's nerves.
So after our interesting flight (we did really enjoy the ride and said we'd ride it again in a hopefully quieter cabin!) we played around in the space area. And Jack modelled another fetching hat:
We had a trip over to Club Cool as we still had some FP time to wait, you guessed it, I'm a mean fiance!
Hee hee hee. I almost thought the Beverly was OK though, it was tonic water like I thought. We had fun trying all the flavours, I liked the Lift and Jack loved the VegitaBeta.
Then it was Test Track time! Even though we had FPs the wait was still pretty long. Once we got in our car the one in front broke down as we were going up the start ramp, so we had to sit for a while as they pulled it off the track.
We LOVED TT, here's our ride photo:
Jack looks so calm!
Next up - World Showcase!
Jack tutted with each one I took. But who's laughing now! I think it's a nice start to a day's photos!
We arrived at opening time and headed (just like everyone else did) straight to Soarin' although we did find time for a couple of SE photos as it was t first we'd seen it properly.
We grabbed FPs for Soarin' (which we never did use so are now in my scrapbook) and walked straight on. We both loved the ride, but Jack doesn't think it's worth all the hype it gets. We were in the back row though, so maybe next time we'll ask for the front.
After Soarin' I was excited for Living with the Land as it had been scheduled to be closed our whole trip but had re-opened early. We both really enjoyed this ride. Lots of photos were taken!
We then headed over to The Seas, stopping for the obligatory photos first of course!
Oh my gosh, we LOVED the clam ride!! I literally had goosebumps from the Nemo guys swimming in there, I just thought it was so magical. Eeee I love it.
I made a beeline for the Manatees when we got in there as I'd have a very brief glimpse of them from backstage on our wedding planning day. I stood for ages watching them, they are just so amazing.
Then we found Nemo!
We were ages looking at all the different sea life. We loved the big turtle in the huge tank. We loved watching him swim round so peacefully. Did you know he used to be in with the dolphins, but they learned they could push him with their noses and send him whizzing round the tank, which they found great fun, but not Mr Turtle, so he got put in the other tank.
He looks very happpy in there now.
We headed out of the Seas and onto Spaceship Earth. We didn't really know what to expect, but really enjoyed SE, especially the glimpse into our future! Hee hee.
Next up we headed over to Test Track, but the line was pretty big and the fast pass only 45 minutes away so we grabbed a couple and decided to give Mission Space a try.
I was pretty nervous as there are a lot of threads on the DIS about people who don't like MS because of the small cabin. And I cannot handle spinning at all (teacups make me feel off for a long while) so we chose the green team. Which had a much shorter line than the orange!
I was a littler nervous, but once we were in the actual waiting room bit I'd calmed down. It's a shame I can't say that for one of our fellow rides.
When we got put onto our 1-4 numbers we were with a dad and is son, and the son was already pretty uneasy. His Dad was saying over adn over to him "it'll be fine, it's fine" but it wasn't really helping. I gave Jack a look to say "I don't think he should go on this".
So we get on the ride and the little boy gets a bit more uneasy. Then the cabin closes and it esclates again. By the time we had blasted off we were into full on "I don't like it" screams. The poor boy was well and truly trapped now.
Jack and I tried our best to make it fun, laughing gently and never making surprised noises etc. But it was really hard worrying that this kid was hainvg a breakdown. The worst bit was he had the button that made us go hyperspeed or do something lous and shaky, so his button lit up, and his dad leant over and pushed it and the noise and shaking started and the poor little boy just started screaming "DADDY - WHY DID YOU DO THAT?"
It was a little bit funny, but the poor boy. The thing is if he hadn't been worked up befor we got on the ride really is pretty tame, so we recon that when he got off he may have re-evaluated the ride and decided he was overreacting and maybe had another go later. We jsut saw it a few times on our trip where the parents were clearly uneasy about how their kids were going to be, so started going "you'll be fine, it's not scary, you'll be fine" to them in the line, and they were always the ones who freaked out. I think they picked up on the parent's nerves.
So after our interesting flight (we did really enjoy the ride and said we'd ride it again in a hopefully quieter cabin!) we played around in the space area. And Jack modelled another fetching hat:
We had a trip over to Club Cool as we still had some FP time to wait, you guessed it, I'm a mean fiance!
Hee hee hee. I almost thought the Beverly was OK though, it was tonic water like I thought. We had fun trying all the flavours, I liked the Lift and Jack loved the VegitaBeta.
Then it was Test Track time! Even though we had FPs the wait was still pretty long. Once we got in our car the one in front broke down as we were going up the start ramp, so we had to sit for a while as they pulled it off the track.
We LOVED TT, here's our ride photo:
Jack looks so calm!
Next up - World Showcase!
It was certainly entertaining! Jack thought it was very amusing that all we learned about Norway was there are just trolls and oil rigs there. Funnily enough this was a ride that I really remembered from my visit when I was 7 - I remember being really scared we were going to go down a drop backwards at the waterfall part. Gladly it wasn’t quite as traumatising 17 years on. 
