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Wednesday, August 24 - Part 3
So what should we do after one crazy spinning ride? How about another spinning ride?
Back in Tomorrowland, Astro Orbiter had a 10 minute wait and it was something I really wanted to do on this trip since I had never done it before and had read on here that it has a really great view from the top.
After waiting on line for about 5 minutes, so that now there were only a couple of people ahead of us before getting into the elevator, BF noticed Stitch* was very nearby with a very short line. Oh my gosh! He got so excited! He wanted to get off line right away to go meet Stitch. Who was this person standing next to me!? And who was I to argue with such enthusiasm? So we hurried over to Stitch, leaving our almost-next-in-line-with-no-one-standing-behind-us position on Astro Orbiter behind, only to find that the line for Stitch was closed as he would be leaving soon. BF was surprisingly disappointed. I was just surprised that he was so disappointed. We went back to Astro Orbiter to find that about 20 people had now gotten on line since we left!
We got on the back of the line, which was now longer than it had been to begin with. Sigh. I didn't mind too much though. It was worth the extra wait to witness my BF getting that excited over meeting a character!
*Note to Reader: Stitch is the "something blue" that is referred to in this chapter title. I thought I should clarify that.
About ten minutes later we were getting into the elevator. And I had no idea what would greet me when the doors reopened. I was so excited for something new!
Please note BF's shirt. It will be important later...
This sign made me laugh.
Well, who would have thought that these rockets were not made for two adults to ride together? Hmm....
It was super squishy in there. It was rather difficult to squeeze both of our bodies into that rather teeny rocket but we had a great time doing it. We were both hysterical laughing as we tried to make all four of our legs fit (not to mention all four of our cheeks)! The ride also moved much faster than I expected it to and we really felt those centrifugal forces. As uncomfortable as it was, it was a ton of fun to do once. And the views were pretty neat.
You can see some of the construction going on in Fantasyland.
After we took the elevator back down to earth, we grabbed FP for Buzz Lightyear. It was currently 10:55 and the return time was 11:35, only 40 minutes away. Not bad at all.
After this, BF noticed that Stitch's Great Escape only had a 10 minute wait. Now, I had already told him that this was something we could skip. Alien Encounter (which had been there before it was changed into the Stitch version) officially scared the pants off me when I was younger. Although the current version is less scary (or maybe I'm just older, or a combination of both) it's still uncomfortable and not-so-fun in my opinion. So anyway, I had told BF that I felt we could skip this but if he really wanted to experience it, I would suck it up. He decided he wanted to try it. I honestly think that if we hadn't missed meeting Stitch by this much that he wouldn't have been so desirous of doing this attraction. But alas, BF wanted his fill of Stitch so I would make sure he got it
For anyone who has never experienced Stitch's Great Escape before, here's some advice: Don't. Just kidding! Kind of! But seriously, if you are going to do this, sit up very straight when the shoulder bar things start moving down. The announcement lets you know that the bars will stop automatically when they touch your shoulders but this isn't 100% accurate. I'd say it's more like 95% accurate. I always feel like once the bars touch my shoulders they try to keep going just a little bit further down to the point where it's very uncomfortable/on the verge of hurting, then stop. So my advice is to sit up very straight and tall so that the bars don't push you down into an uncomfortable position.
So after this was over BF agreed with me that we could have skipped it. He thought it was boring.
At this point Monster's Inc. Laugh Floor had a 20 minute wait time posted so we decided to do that. After waiting for about 5 minutes on line in the first area, we were able to see the next preshow. There were TV screens encouraging guests to text in their jokes so that they may be used in the show. When BF saw that he told me a cute joke about a seagull so I told him to text it in but of course, he said no.
The actual show was very funny. I noticed that a few jokes were recycled from when I saw the show in February but most things were different because they depend so much on audience participation. I remembered from February how they kept focusing the camera on one guy throughout the whole show and making recurring jokes about him and I was really hoping that guy would be BF but it wasn't. However, he did still get to be part of the show!
First of all, when they started reading some of the jokes the audience had texted in, I heard the same joke that BF told me while we were waiting on line: What do you get when a sea gull flies over the bay? A bay-gull!
I started to say to BF, "Hey! That was your joke!" But before I could finish, they announced that the joke had come from Bobby from NJ. And then I realized...that was MY Bobby from NJ! He had texted the joke in while I wasn't paying attention. BF was getting into the magic! 
Then, during the part of the show where they do geography jokes, they talked to the man sitting next to BF who was wearing a NY shirt. When he said he was from NY the monsters starting saying all the things they knew about NY (that were all wrong, and very funny). Then they finished by saying that NY was next to Ireland and the camera moved over a few inches to show BF, wearing his Ireland shirt, sitting next to the guy from New York, wearing his NY shirt. It was *so* funny and the whole audience was hysterical. And BF totally loved the joke and the attention. It was such a great time. BF definitely enjoyed the show more than I thought he would.
After the show we were getting hungry so we decided to venture over to Adventureland. On our way over we stopped for a few Photopass Pictures with a photographer who was a lot of fun. When I asked him to take our picture he said, "Sure!" then held his camera up in my face. I made a cheesy smile, not expecting him to actually take a picture. Well, he did. Here it is in its original form, not zoomed or cropped or anything. He was actually this close to my face!
Then, to be fair, he had to take a picture of BF by himself too.
I had to include this picture too because I think the caption makes it even more hilarious than it already is.
Then we got this photo from a different photographer as we crossed the hub.
Up Next: Lunch at Tortuga Tavern
So what should we do after one crazy spinning ride? How about another spinning ride?
Back in Tomorrowland, Astro Orbiter had a 10 minute wait and it was something I really wanted to do on this trip since I had never done it before and had read on here that it has a really great view from the top.
After waiting on line for about 5 minutes, so that now there were only a couple of people ahead of us before getting into the elevator, BF noticed Stitch* was very nearby with a very short line. Oh my gosh! He got so excited! He wanted to get off line right away to go meet Stitch. Who was this person standing next to me!? And who was I to argue with such enthusiasm? So we hurried over to Stitch, leaving our almost-next-in-line-with-no-one-standing-behind-us position on Astro Orbiter behind, only to find that the line for Stitch was closed as he would be leaving soon. BF was surprisingly disappointed. I was just surprised that he was so disappointed. We went back to Astro Orbiter to find that about 20 people had now gotten on line since we left!
We got on the back of the line, which was now longer than it had been to begin with. Sigh. I didn't mind too much though. It was worth the extra wait to witness my BF getting that excited over meeting a character!*Note to Reader: Stitch is the "something blue" that is referred to in this chapter title. I thought I should clarify that.
About ten minutes later we were getting into the elevator. And I had no idea what would greet me when the doors reopened. I was so excited for something new!
Please note BF's shirt. It will be important later...
This sign made me laugh.
Well, who would have thought that these rockets were not made for two adults to ride together? Hmm....
It was super squishy in there. It was rather difficult to squeeze both of our bodies into that rather teeny rocket but we had a great time doing it. We were both hysterical laughing as we tried to make all four of our legs fit (not to mention all four of our cheeks)! The ride also moved much faster than I expected it to and we really felt those centrifugal forces. As uncomfortable as it was, it was a ton of fun to do once. And the views were pretty neat.
You can see some of the construction going on in Fantasyland.
After we took the elevator back down to earth, we grabbed FP for Buzz Lightyear. It was currently 10:55 and the return time was 11:35, only 40 minutes away. Not bad at all.
After this, BF noticed that Stitch's Great Escape only had a 10 minute wait. Now, I had already told him that this was something we could skip. Alien Encounter (which had been there before it was changed into the Stitch version) officially scared the pants off me when I was younger. Although the current version is less scary (or maybe I'm just older, or a combination of both) it's still uncomfortable and not-so-fun in my opinion. So anyway, I had told BF that I felt we could skip this but if he really wanted to experience it, I would suck it up. He decided he wanted to try it. I honestly think that if we hadn't missed meeting Stitch by this much that he wouldn't have been so desirous of doing this attraction. But alas, BF wanted his fill of Stitch so I would make sure he got it
For anyone who has never experienced Stitch's Great Escape before, here's some advice: Don't. Just kidding! Kind of! But seriously, if you are going to do this, sit up very straight when the shoulder bar things start moving down. The announcement lets you know that the bars will stop automatically when they touch your shoulders but this isn't 100% accurate. I'd say it's more like 95% accurate. I always feel like once the bars touch my shoulders they try to keep going just a little bit further down to the point where it's very uncomfortable/on the verge of hurting, then stop. So my advice is to sit up very straight and tall so that the bars don't push you down into an uncomfortable position.
So after this was over BF agreed with me that we could have skipped it. He thought it was boring.
At this point Monster's Inc. Laugh Floor had a 20 minute wait time posted so we decided to do that. After waiting for about 5 minutes on line in the first area, we were able to see the next preshow. There were TV screens encouraging guests to text in their jokes so that they may be used in the show. When BF saw that he told me a cute joke about a seagull so I told him to text it in but of course, he said no.
The actual show was very funny. I noticed that a few jokes were recycled from when I saw the show in February but most things were different because they depend so much on audience participation. I remembered from February how they kept focusing the camera on one guy throughout the whole show and making recurring jokes about him and I was really hoping that guy would be BF but it wasn't. However, he did still get to be part of the show!
First of all, when they started reading some of the jokes the audience had texted in, I heard the same joke that BF told me while we were waiting on line: What do you get when a sea gull flies over the bay? A bay-gull!
I started to say to BF, "Hey! That was your joke!" But before I could finish, they announced that the joke had come from Bobby from NJ. And then I realized...that was MY Bobby from NJ! He had texted the joke in while I wasn't paying attention. BF was getting into the magic! Then, during the part of the show where they do geography jokes, they talked to the man sitting next to BF who was wearing a NY shirt. When he said he was from NY the monsters starting saying all the things they knew about NY (that were all wrong, and very funny). Then they finished by saying that NY was next to Ireland and the camera moved over a few inches to show BF, wearing his Ireland shirt, sitting next to the guy from New York, wearing his NY shirt. It was *so* funny and the whole audience was hysterical. And BF totally loved the joke and the attention. It was such a great time. BF definitely enjoyed the show more than I thought he would.
After the show we were getting hungry so we decided to venture over to Adventureland. On our way over we stopped for a few Photopass Pictures with a photographer who was a lot of fun. When I asked him to take our picture he said, "Sure!" then held his camera up in my face. I made a cheesy smile, not expecting him to actually take a picture. Well, he did. Here it is in its original form, not zoomed or cropped or anything. He was actually this close to my face!
Then, to be fair, he had to take a picture of BF by himself too.
I had to include this picture too because I think the caption makes it even more hilarious than it already is.
Then we got this photo from a different photographer as we crossed the hub.
Up Next: Lunch at Tortuga Tavern
I started laughing on the picture of BF with "Where dreams come true". I also like how you're in the picture laughing, it's cute and captures a good moment. 
And to think he texted in a joke, wow! BF was definitely feeling "magical" at this point
I'm so glad BF is starting to show how much fun he's having.
and will be waiting for your updates next week! Merry Christmas!
I wish my BF was more like that!
But he also said it was more entertaining than he thought it would be and agreed with me that it was relaxing and a very clever creation.
