5:50am Four members of family leave.
5:53 Lagging child and I leave. He runs ahead, catching up with the rest.
Hordes of other guests are also out.
5:58 DH texts that the DHS bus is here. I tell him to leave without me. I arrive at bus stop to see bus rolling away.
6:05 Next bus comes. I'm first in line, and enough new people have arrived to have to stand.
6:06 DH and kids arrive at DHS.
6:13 People let into park.
6:19 I arrive. Hordes streaming in from cars, buses, rideshares, Skyliner.
6:38 I tap in having headed to far right.
6:42 Reunited with family purely by accident. Had abandoned trying in the wall to wall crowds of people.
We head to GE like lemmings. We realize that we can't rope drop Smuggler's Run with at least 3000 people in front of us when we have an 8:15 Epcot GG PPO breakfast. Kids are disappointed, being so close to so Batuu. We head toward the exit, and split up. DH is carrying DD, so they find a bench. DS15 and he are on WiFi, I'm on data.
MDE consistently saying it's a weak WiFi connection.
6:59 + 30 seconds on my phone's clock A guy next to me say, "I'm in." I jump on it. All six of us there, and I get BG 83.
7:01 I text DH, who says his MDE said that he wasn't in the park, just the other five of us.
We stream with thousands of people to the exit, only one lane open to exit as more.and more enter.
7:03 DH texts that people near him got no group at all, couldn't get in. I feel their pain, having gotten a backup group that ended up 15 groups too late to ride yesterday. So possibly 30 seconds earlier, like if the family in front of me at the tapstiles hadn't had magicband problems, and we would have ridden yesterday and gotten two more hours of sleep this morning.
7:10 On Skyliner to Epcot reunited.
8:10 Sipping a raspberry mimosa at Garden Grill.