DAY 3 - DHS
OK - so we did not believe anyone when they said "take it easy your first day or two" - and boy, we PAID for that today!
So, we woke up today at 6 am to give ourselves enough time to go and eat breakfast at Boatwright's and then make it to DHS by ropedrop. We get in line when they should be opening at 7 on the nose... they are a little behind so we had to wait about 15 minutes for our waffles (which were not great - i think because we were like 3rd in line and they were just opening and the iron wasn't quite ready) so they were raw in the middle
YUCK! so I go get a danish and we get on our way.
The bus pulls up to DHS a little after 8 and DH is like "Oh good job honey, now we have an hour to wait"
But then we look towards the gate and see some people already waiting - "see - i told you!
people don't mess around in disney" (we were completely unaware that there was an am extra magic hour so that was a total shock when we see that there is like a million people there already)
So we get in the gates and there was this really cute older cast member that stops as us when we were walking in and comments on the newlywed hats. So he pats DH on the shoulder and says "Son, I have been married for 21 years and I only have one piece of advise..." so he opens his empty wallet and shows it to us and says "get used to it"...
So as we are walking down the street where rope drop is going to be, we see three cast members on their walkie talkies and I hear them say "Ok, here they come - I see them" and he is looking right at me...
huh???
SO - NATURALLY - I think of NC's story about being the chosen ones to open the park... My heart sinks (for the second time this trip)... the CM calls for everyones attention and says "LOOK EVERYONE!!! There are some newlyweds in the house! Everyone give them a big round of applause"... awww - people are too sweet when you wear those hats
Then the CM says all the rules "no running etc..." and tells us all that they will be opening up and tells us to follow the CM's to RNR and TOT. So naturally we follow... I ask DH which he wants to do first and tell him that we'll grab a FP for the other... He says "RNR - so we start to head there and realize that it's filling up quick - so we say oh well - we don't really want to waste precious time going to TOT for FP'S so we get a FP for RNR and get in the stand by line... we only waited about 5 minutes & IT WAS AWESOME!!! My DH said that it was his favorite ride at WDW (besides EE - but we'll get there next installment
)
We get off the ride and head over to TOT where there is an angry mob standing outside of the still closed gates
- I guess that they were having trouble with the ride and kept telling people "it'll just be a few more minutes" well, by this point people were yelling and leaving the line and DH and I took advantage and got in line ... literally 2 minutes later the gates opened and we went right in!!! Less than a 5 minute wait there too!!!
so it's now like 8:20 and we already did the two biggest attractions that there are
... hmmmm hmmmm hmmm ...
so next we head over towards the muppet 3-d theatre and see that (it's cute but NOTHING compared to phillharmagic) so, we just kind of walk around everywhere taking pictures and went on the great movie ride.
Our lunch reservation was at 50's Prime Time at 11:30 and it was sooo cute inside the restaurant - for anyone who hasn't been there when you go inside the whole place looks like a home in the 50's - they have couches and tv's and older decorations. They even have "dad's bar"
with a mirrored back and old vinyl chairs - it's really fun in there! Our server was "Uncle Tommy" and he made us set the table and yelled at us for having our elbows on the table.
I ordered Fried chicken with mashed potatoes and collard greens with a chocolate shake and DH ordered a chicken caesar salad with a strawberry shake. The food was pretty good - but the atmosphere was definately what made this restaurant... I think the cutest part was when they brought the dessert menu (which we were way too stuffed to have) it was a view finder
- it was so fun and it was a really fun touch. As we were leaving "Uncle Tommy" yelled "Hey you kids! NO TOWER FOR AN HOUR!! and be home before the street lights come on!!!"
After lunch we were soooo exhausted that we just left and went back to our room. I usually never can sleep in the afternoon, but we both slept from 2 until about 5!!
We woke up from our beauty sleep and got ready to go to epcot for our dinner reservation at Coral Reef. When we got to Epcot - we went to see Finding Nemo and we just walked around Future World. We were still feeling kinda drained so we just sat next to the fountains in front of Imagination! and watched some families playing in the fountains - there was this cute little girl in a belle dress drenched head to toe yelling, "Look! I'm a princess!"
We went to our reservation at Coral Reef and the food was excellent! We both started with the lobster bisque and I had the Mahi Mahi and the sorbet(yuuummmmyyy
) and DH had the Crab Legs and the chocolate cake. That was a really cool place with the aquarium and everything - the sat us right up on the glass and gave everyone a fish spotting guide
and then after dinner we took a leisurely stroll back to our bus and went home to get ready for the AK the next day!!!
Yes, you must get a Disney Visa!! We charge our gas and groceries and pay it off every month and then we are earning our "spending" money for the next trip! Love it! 
so we headed over to Big Thunder, waited about 15 minutes, the ride began and went into the tunnel and started up the first lift hill and then stopped. Ride shutdown! We had to be evacuated. Woo Hoo!!! Got video of that and will post it up. They gave us FPs and so we headed to Space Mountain and we had a great ride there. Two more friends showed up and we back to Adventureland to see if Indiana Jones was up and running yet. Nope, it was closed all day.
