Moramoon
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 23, 2016
We didn't have the best experience trying to getting to the party, but ended up having a wonderful evening yesterday. We're DVC and planned on getting in at 2. We resort hopped in the morning and at about 1:15 decided we'd take the monorail from GF to MK. Went to the monorail and it was apparently down. They ended up giving us an anytime fastpass because hubby said something about the wait for the bus being ridiculous. Since the rain was only light at that point and not a downpour like it had been all morning we decided to take the boat. When we got to the dock there were a few other people under the awning, but we waited at the line. We talked to several other nice people while we waited. After we had waited about 35 minutes the families at the dock walked over and said they called and they said because of the weather the boat service was suspended because of the weather. One of the other families in line behind us said they came to the boats because they were told the wait for the bus was 2 hours but a CM at the bus. We decided to too walk over to the TTC and take the ferry across some that was still running. We got almost to the poly and saw they started using the boats that normally run from MK to wilderness lodge to pick up at GF and poly. We hurried over to the poly dock and just missed the boat. We ended up waiting about another 30 minutes for the boat to come back. By the time we got to MK it was 3 and we had missed our first fastpass. Since we had missed that one we figured we'd set tink really quick. She was posted 20, but we pretty much walked into the first room. I asked about Jack and Sally when we got in line and they said there were a couple families already waiting. After that we worked on our fast passes. Went to splash which was a walk on. DS And DH did it first while DD and I went to carpets. We stopped by the frontier trading post because my husband wanted a party pin. They said they were all out. So we walked back to splash. After I rode with DS we went to Peter pan and rode the carousel. We went to seven dwarves and asked if it would be possible to use our anytime fastpass there. She said not normally, but because of where we got it from she'd let us. That ended up being DD's first roller coaster. Walked into cups, dumbo, and barnstormer after that. Went to big top after that too ask about the pin. They said they were all out, but star traders might have some so we headed that way. They ended up having the Alice pin that hubby wanted along with 2 others. After that it was about time for the castle lighting so we went towards the hub. Anna and Elsa didn't come out, but they still did the lighting. Since the crowds were so light earlier and we had managed to get a lot of what we wanted to done before the party started we did pictures and saw some characters and got cookies. I was having issues purchasing the 1 day photo pass and was told to go 3 different places by cm's until we were told the right place. We headed to the front of the park to get that taken care of. It was about 8:10 at that point and we noticed mainstreet was mostly only curb spots taken for the parade so we decided to stop and grab a spot. We ended up sitting behind a family in the curb across from the art shop. Before the parade started DS and DD both fell asleep and slept the whole parade. They ended up doing a short version of the parade, but it was still good. The wasn't any snow, but since the kids were asleep I wasn't too upset about that. We woke DS up when it was over and got our photos taken care of Santa had no wait so we headed the after that. We did a few more characters and got some really good pictures even though DD was asleep. Since DD was still out DS and I did some more rides while DH and DD hung out at pinocchio's. While DS and I passed frontier land on our way back from big thunder we noticed it was the full parade this time and that there was several open spots at the rope to watch. We headed towards mainstreet after grabbing some more cookies at pinocchio's we ended up catching the end of the parade on mainstreet which still didn't seem that packed. After the parade we stopped in the shop. Just before midnight we headed out. After the awful morning I'm really glad the party panned out. There were so few people before and during the party we managed to get way more done than I had planned and it was so nice to not have wall to wall people.