Chapter 30 - Fantasmic!
I left off with us riding Toy Story. We finally met back up with DBF's parents. I think everyone was drained after such a hot day, and they decided to go see the first Fantasmic show. (I was looking for my map to see the layout of the park to make sure I didn't miss anything and I can't find it! I think DBF might have thrown it away while he was cleaning!
) I had planned on seeing the 2nd, as I had read it was less crowded and I wanted some more time to ride, but sadly, I was outvoted.
We headed back over to the Fantasmic arena and stopped for another Photopass
We made it to the arena. It was pretty busy already (I think we went in about 45 minutes early) but we managed to find pretty good seats.
Our view. Pretty close to the center.
We decided to get some snacks while we waited. Before coming in I got a popcorn bucket. (Still need to find a use for it at home!!) But with 5 of us sharing, it ran out pretty quickly. I had seen a lot of people with ice cream and I still had never tried a Mickey bar so that's what we decided to get.
Well, I had my first Mickey bar and DBF and DSis both had frozen bananas.
We killed some more time by getting out the glow sticks I had brought with me. We even got DBF's mom to put some on! There were some extras in the tubes that we just couldn't get on our bodies, so I offered them to a mom and two kids sitting next to us. They enjoyed playing with them, also!
It was about this time that we experienced the only really rude people we encountered at Disney. If you notice in the Mickey bar picture, there was empty space on the benches in front of us. The space that you see there was about the only space available. It was enough for maybe 2 people. I think that's why no one came over to sit in it. That plus we were right in the middle and it was probably hard to see and people didn't want to climb all the way over everyone else who was already on both sides of the empty space.
So, we had some of our stuff there and the people below us had some of their stuff there. (Yes, I know the space is for people not things, but I gladly would have moved it had someone asked about the seats!) Anyway, with about 10 minutes before the show, this lady came over and started *yelling* to someone, "Here are some seats! These people are using it to put stuff and that's not what they're for so come on, we can sit right here with no problem. These are good seats and we can sit in them if we want to!" We had noticed her coming and removed all our stuff, but the people in front of us didn't and the lady rudely told them to get their stuff out of the way because they were sitting here.
Now, I've left out the most important part of the story and I'm sorry if this sounds rude or insensitive, but it's just the way it was. This lady was huge. She herself took up the space on the bench that DBF, DSis and I did. So she and her son (who is almost as big as her) come over and sit down squeezing in to this tiny little space. But they weren't done. They were turned around and motioning to others that they had found seats. So three more (big!) people come over and try to cram into this little space.
And here is where I really got annoyed. They all had backpacks on their back and didn't remove them when they sat down. You know how those benches are and if you're bigger you kind of already go into the bench behind you, so they were taking up space in the front row and now encroaching on our space with their backpacks. DSis and DBF's dad had to rearrange their bodies so they weren't being smashed with the bags!
On top of that, the lady was so rude to the people below us and kept saying to the girl next to her, "Move down we need some more space! You can share. You don't need all this space in between your party." The girl I think got intimidated and annoyed and ended up moving down a row to not sit with her family and squeezed in to a tiny little space on the row below them! And then the whole row below us were almost sitting on top of each other because of this family!
I was so annoyed! I remember this so well, because it was the worst thing I had ever seen. I'm sorry but if you get to a show 10 minutes before it starts, you shouldn't expect good seats or expect people to accommodate you. I'm getting angry just thinking about it, especially because there were a bunch of open seats on the top and the sides where they could have sat just as easily. They felt they were entitled to those seats, though, no matter who they inconvenienced. GRRRR....
Anyway, after they got settled, they didn't really affect us too much, so I just enjoyed the show. Here are some pictures, but I didn't take too many and they didn't tun out very well.
And two videos:
Character Boat
Princess Medley where you can hear DSis singing and me yelling at her for being annoying! (Haha)
I loved Fantasmic! If I wasn't such a sucker for Wishes and fireworks and the MK, it would easily be my favorite show at WDW! I actually have the music from it as one of my cell phone rings! (I also have Wishes music as another ring!)
We headed out but not before DSis decided she needed to get her DBF a popcorn bucket as a souvenir (which was nice because we got more popcorn - who knew it was so good!). Seriously, does anyone have a suggestion for something to use this for at home. It's just sitting in my closet at the moment, but would love to make use of it at our new house.
I took some pictures while waiting for her.
We got one last Photopass photo:
We finally got into the car and headed home for the night. But not before Jack insisted on having his picture taken.
Up Next: Our last day! Back to DHS as we didn't get to do everything we wanted.
Poor DF gets embarrassed, but I hate rude people! 
I get to do that at Epcot. At least I'm bigger and can put my foot down that we don't go on the extreme side. Or if the DH goes, he gets to ride it with him.
