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Day 4, Part 7: My Disney Birthday Wish Came True!
It’s finally here everyone! The post where I explain the title to this trip report!
We had just finished a fun ride on Soarin’. After the ride we discussed what we wanted to do. I was up for doing SE and hope that Guardians would be open by the time we got off (it still wasn’t open at this point), but my mom had had enough. She was tired, overheated, and getting grumpy and wanted to leave. So I agreed we’d start making our way out and get pictures with the topiaries on the way, with the one caveat that if Guardians opened before we made it to the exit, we would head there first.
My mom agreed that was a good plan so we started to head out. We only made it about 20 steps before I saw that Guardians had opened! YAY!!!!!! So we rushed over there….only to see the longest line I’ve ever seen for LL. The line went all the way back to Mission Space!
There was a CM there holding the end of LL sign that was announcing it would be a 75+ minute wait for the LL! Yikes. But, I had this feeling that she was overexaggerating so people would come back later and the LL line would get back to normal length.
So I told my mom we would wait in line, and if we didn’t make it to the indoor portion of the queue within 10 minutes we could leave, and she agreed. It was a gamble, but I had faith my Disney spidey sense wouldn’t betray me. Sure enough, even though the line was alllllllllll the way back to Mission Space when we got in it, we made it indoors in 8 minutes! My mom was both impressed, and annoyed.
Once inside we moved pretty quickly, only stopping once. When we got to the LL/Standby merge room I saw the most glorious thing I’ve ever seen. Stanchions were set up in the room to file people through still in a line (no more crushing of people all trying to get to the right), AND even more amazing, the stanchions didn’t lead to the door to the first preshow room but to the doors that lead to the backstage corridor! WHAT!?! And bonus, they were only letting people in the LL through, which makes sense considered we paid for a shorter wait.
Now, at this point I was starting to get an inkling that something I had literally told my mom the previous day I wanted for my birthday may actually happen.
So we follow the queue into the side hall, and I see that we’re passing the double doors for the first preshow room. At this point I’m practically jumping up and down with excitement, because as you may have guessed, my birthday wish was to be able to skip the preshows on Guardians!
Now, I thought we were just skipping the first preshow room at first, but then instead of turning into the second preshow room, we were led right into the post preshow hall!!!!!!
Guys, I almost cried with excitement. I had just the previous night told my mom that my birthday wish this year was to be able to skip the preshows for Guardians and it ACTUALLY HAPPENED!! Seriously, what are the chances!?!? Even more amazing, as we were exiting the merge room, a CM was following us removing the stanchions, so we juuuuust made it in time to skip the preshows. I couldn’t believe it.
In all, from entering the LL line to getting on the ride, it took 23 minutes, which I feel like is less time than when the preshows are actually running.
Now, because I apparently used my birthday wish on skipping the preshows, I didn’t get my secondary wish of finally getting Disco, but I would 100% pick skipping the preshows again over getting that song! We got I Ran for our song, which seems to have replaced September as the song we get the most.
Anyways, after the ride I was in a great mood, my mom however was done, she just wanted to go back to the hotel and take a nap. So we started to make our way out.
Since my mom’s foot was really starting to hurt, I decided to surprise her by booking a Minnie Van to get back, I didn’t want to chance her not getting a seat on the bus with how much her foot hurt. So when we got to the bus area I lead her to the benches by the Minnie Van pickup area, and told her I’d keep an eye out for our bus since the bus stop was only like 2 down, but since her foot was really hurting she should sit there until the bus arrived. She thought that was a great plan and settled in. Needless to say, she was soooooo confused when a Minnie Van pulled up a few minutes later and the driver knew my name!
My mom hates when I spend money on Minnie Vans, but honestly with how she was feeling I was more than happy to spend the money on it.
It was a nice ride back to WL, this time we chatted with the driver about all the fun drivers we’ve had over the years. He was actually pretty impressed we remember the names of most of them, and of course he knew the NASCAR driver (Bob) and the trainer (Boomer). We got home around 4:30, and made our way upstairs to rest a bit.
Next up: Dinner #1 at the Lounge
We had just finished a fun ride on Soarin’. After the ride we discussed what we wanted to do. I was up for doing SE and hope that Guardians would be open by the time we got off (it still wasn’t open at this point), but my mom had had enough. She was tired, overheated, and getting grumpy and wanted to leave. So I agreed we’d start making our way out and get pictures with the topiaries on the way, with the one caveat that if Guardians opened before we made it to the exit, we would head there first.
My mom agreed that was a good plan so we started to head out. We only made it about 20 steps before I saw that Guardians had opened! YAY!!!!!! So we rushed over there….only to see the longest line I’ve ever seen for LL. The line went all the way back to Mission Space!
There was a CM there holding the end of LL sign that was announcing it would be a 75+ minute wait for the LL! Yikes. But, I had this feeling that she was overexaggerating so people would come back later and the LL line would get back to normal length.
So I told my mom we would wait in line, and if we didn’t make it to the indoor portion of the queue within 10 minutes we could leave, and she agreed. It was a gamble, but I had faith my Disney spidey sense wouldn’t betray me. Sure enough, even though the line was alllllllllll the way back to Mission Space when we got in it, we made it indoors in 8 minutes! My mom was both impressed, and annoyed.
Once inside we moved pretty quickly, only stopping once. When we got to the LL/Standby merge room I saw the most glorious thing I’ve ever seen. Stanchions were set up in the room to file people through still in a line (no more crushing of people all trying to get to the right), AND even more amazing, the stanchions didn’t lead to the door to the first preshow room but to the doors that lead to the backstage corridor! WHAT!?! And bonus, they were only letting people in the LL through, which makes sense considered we paid for a shorter wait.
Now, at this point I was starting to get an inkling that something I had literally told my mom the previous day I wanted for my birthday may actually happen.
So we follow the queue into the side hall, and I see that we’re passing the double doors for the first preshow room. At this point I’m practically jumping up and down with excitement, because as you may have guessed, my birthday wish was to be able to skip the preshows on Guardians!
Now, I thought we were just skipping the first preshow room at first, but then instead of turning into the second preshow room, we were led right into the post preshow hall!!!!!!
Guys, I almost cried with excitement. I had just the previous night told my mom that my birthday wish this year was to be able to skip the preshows for Guardians and it ACTUALLY HAPPENED!! Seriously, what are the chances!?!? Even more amazing, as we were exiting the merge room, a CM was following us removing the stanchions, so we juuuuust made it in time to skip the preshows. I couldn’t believe it.
In all, from entering the LL line to getting on the ride, it took 23 minutes, which I feel like is less time than when the preshows are actually running.
Now, because I apparently used my birthday wish on skipping the preshows, I didn’t get my secondary wish of finally getting Disco, but I would 100% pick skipping the preshows again over getting that song! We got I Ran for our song, which seems to have replaced September as the song we get the most.
Anyways, after the ride I was in a great mood, my mom however was done, she just wanted to go back to the hotel and take a nap. So we started to make our way out.
Since my mom’s foot was really starting to hurt, I decided to surprise her by booking a Minnie Van to get back, I didn’t want to chance her not getting a seat on the bus with how much her foot hurt. So when we got to the bus area I lead her to the benches by the Minnie Van pickup area, and told her I’d keep an eye out for our bus since the bus stop was only like 2 down, but since her foot was really hurting she should sit there until the bus arrived. She thought that was a great plan and settled in. Needless to say, she was soooooo confused when a Minnie Van pulled up a few minutes later and the driver knew my name!
My mom hates when I spend money on Minnie Vans, but honestly with how she was feeling I was more than happy to spend the money on it.
It was a nice ride back to WL, this time we chatted with the driver about all the fun drivers we’ve had over the years. He was actually pretty impressed we remember the names of most of them, and of course he knew the NASCAR driver (Bob) and the trainer (Boomer). We got home around 4:30, and made our way upstairs to rest a bit.
Next up: Dinner #1 at the Lounge
