Ok, a recap of my night.
Entered park earlier in the afternoon via AP; rides and dinner; got lanyard; dessert party and Happily Ever After.
Pre-DAH
Rode Peoplemover
Tried to use lanyard FP at Buzz but no luck. Didn’t want to wait for anything so headed back to Hub to meet my friend who was arriving from Epcot. Realized Once Upon a Time was about to start so I got to watch that.
By the end of OUAT, it was 9pm.
Buzz (walk-on)
Met Friend.
Peoplemover again, I love that ride!
Buzz again (per request of friend)
Space; got stuck behind someone not walking on exit moving walkway (they also had a manual wheelchair) and it was super annoying so we had to squeeze by them and the wheelchair and they gave us attitiude, so I snarked right back.
Barnstormer x2 (let us stay on so we called an audible and rode again)
Under the Sea
Considered seeing Ariel but wait was 15 min so skipped.
Grabbed some water/coke/ice cream bar for friend.
Winnie the Pooh
Split from friend as he headed to frontier and i wanted to do 7D despite posted wait time.
7DMT-posted wait 25 min; actually less than 10 min. Waited to get the back car.
7DMT again-posted 20 min, actually 7 min including plenty of time to play in queue (I’ve always just FPed it)
More water/sodas. I was too stuffed for ice cream.
Peter Pan-posted 25 min. No line until you get back out of the extended queue. I was alone in Nursery so i got to have awesome interactions with the shadows. Total wait about 7 min
Headed to Adventureland to meet friend again.
While waiting for him rode Magic Carpets x2. Had an awesome CM (I already tweeted a cast compliment), who was just hilarious and having so much fun! A highlight: “You get a carpet, you get a carpet, everyone gets a carpet!”
Met my friend at Jungle Cruise and it was his dream to have a private boat. We mentioned that to the CM and originally they were skeptical it would happen because more people kept coming up. But the skippers on the dock ended up working hard to get us a boat, with them filling up the previous boat, waiting for a new empty one and then rushing it along to get out of the dock before more people walked up! We even ended up with one of them as our Skipper because they did a switch off. And that ride was amazing! My friend videoed it all and the guy didn’t even need to use his speaker! He made plenty of new jokes (some you probably wouldn’t do in a larger group) and was having so much fun with us too. He even was able to talk in the temple cave since he wasn’t using a speaker. Truly wonderful and I also tweeted out a compliment for them.
By the time we were done it was 12:00 exactly, so no more rides.
Ended up waiting a while for AKL bus, but thankfully I got a seat. But it was packed full and a lot of people were left in the bus waiting area. I really wish I had just gotten a Minnie van or walked to contemporary and gotten an uber, as I forgot the bus also stopped at Kidani before Jambo. Got back to my room around 1:10 am.
Also ran into
@SmithSmith in the hallway which was a nice surprise! Sorry we couldn’t talk longer but I think we were both so exhausted!
Overall it was a lot of fun! I’m not sure if I’ll do it again (partially because I don’t know if I’ll be visiting when it’s offered, and partially because I don’t know if I want to spend money).