KimWDW
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Just back from 8 days in WDW. We had a great time! We even got hit 3 times by YOAMD! 
The first was a CM who walked up to my son in the MK and asked him if he liked cotton candy, then gave him free cotton candy and a YOAMD certificate. Then later we were walking through Fantasyland and a CM said, "Psst... can you help me?" We walked into the store and she asked DS if he could help her match up the correct names with the faces of the Seven Dwarfs. He did it and got another certificate. He got a big kick out of it. He got a few stickers throughout the week, too. Then, on our last day we got the dream fastpass at AK! But we had already gotten fastpasses for Everest and Dinosaur and ridden everything else at that point, so we decided that instead of using all the fastpasses again, we'd pass it on to someone else. So on our way out (we were doing a half day at AK) we stopped a couple on their way in and gave them the dream fastpasses. They were delighted! Confused at first, but delighted once we explained it.
All week the crowds were very small. We waited once for 20 minutes and the rest were 5 minutes or under. We used fastpass often, but didn't need to sometimes. On Tuesday, Splash was a 5 minute wait, FP machines covered. AK had 10 minute waits on Thursday for Everest and Dinosaur. It was great! Then came the weekend... ACK! I don't know why but the weekend was ridiculously packed. We went to the AK Saturday morning and MK in the afternoon. Buzz was 110 minutes, Peter Pan 70 minutes, Pirates 45 minutes, etc. All these rides were walk on during the week!
All in all, it was a great week. The new Nemo ride was cute. The Little Einsteins character lunch at H&V was fantastic. My son had a blast.
Any questions?
ETA: Another interesting thing that happened was that our truck blew out a tire on the safari ride at AK! It was our first time at AK so we all thought it was part of the ride. There was a bang and hiss and the truck stopped and the driver talked into his headpiece. Then he turned to us and said, "This is real folks!" Maintenance came in a pickup truck and changed the tire right then and there and we were driving again in about 15 minutes. That's something that doesn't happen every day!
The first was a CM who walked up to my son in the MK and asked him if he liked cotton candy, then gave him free cotton candy and a YOAMD certificate. Then later we were walking through Fantasyland and a CM said, "Psst... can you help me?" We walked into the store and she asked DS if he could help her match up the correct names with the faces of the Seven Dwarfs. He did it and got another certificate. He got a big kick out of it. He got a few stickers throughout the week, too. Then, on our last day we got the dream fastpass at AK! But we had already gotten fastpasses for Everest and Dinosaur and ridden everything else at that point, so we decided that instead of using all the fastpasses again, we'd pass it on to someone else. So on our way out (we were doing a half day at AK) we stopped a couple on their way in and gave them the dream fastpasses. They were delighted! Confused at first, but delighted once we explained it. All week the crowds were very small. We waited once for 20 minutes and the rest were 5 minutes or under. We used fastpass often, but didn't need to sometimes. On Tuesday, Splash was a 5 minute wait, FP machines covered. AK had 10 minute waits on Thursday for Everest and Dinosaur. It was great! Then came the weekend... ACK! I don't know why but the weekend was ridiculously packed. We went to the AK Saturday morning and MK in the afternoon. Buzz was 110 minutes, Peter Pan 70 minutes, Pirates 45 minutes, etc. All these rides were walk on during the week!
All in all, it was a great week. The new Nemo ride was cute. The Little Einsteins character lunch at H&V was fantastic. My son had a blast.
Any questions?
ETA: Another interesting thing that happened was that our truck blew out a tire on the safari ride at AK! It was our first time at AK so we all thought it was part of the ride. There was a bang and hiss and the truck stopped and the driver talked into his headpiece. Then he turned to us and said, "This is real folks!" Maintenance came in a pickup truck and changed the tire right then and there and we were driving again in about 15 minutes. That's something that doesn't happen every day!
Magic. 
) She did BTRR about 10 times. This year she's wavering on EE and doesn't want to do Space Mtn. 
