Charade67
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Hello everyone. I’m not home yet, but am no longer in Orlando. We are staying in Williamsburg for the night before heading back home tomorrow. There is some sort of soccer tournament going on this weekend, so we are seeing high school students everywhere. This explains why most of the hotels were sold out when I booked our room a couple of months ago. We just missed the cheer leaders at WDW, but were there in time for the high school marching bands.
WDW was fun, but also crowded and exhausting. I am too out of shape to go to a theme park 4 days in a row. We only made rope drop the first 2 days. We did Animal Kingdom with out using Lightning Lane. I think that was our best day over all. The weather was just about perfect.
We rope dropped EPCOT and went straight to the new Ratatouille ride along with most everyone else. We were in line for about 40 minutes, were almost to the ride, and it broke down. We waited it out for about another 40 minutes. I was just about to suggest we leave when they got it going again. It’s a cute ride, but I certainly wouldn’t stand in line for over 2 hours for it like some people did.
That evening we decided to stay and watch Harmonious. It started raining (I now own an official Disney rain poncho) and it kept getting harder as the evening went on. I’m surprised they didn’t cancel the show since there was lightning in the area. When we left I could barely see where I was going due to all the rain on my glasses and streaming down my face.
The next day was Magic Kingdom. We didn’t rope drop and most of the good lightning lane times were snapped up quickly. I feel that I wasted my money on it that day. I didn’t get to do a few of the rides I wanted, but that’s okay. We were able to do plenty of other stuff. The new fireworks show is phenomenal.
We did see the most adorable thing though. They are still doing the mini parades, or cavalcades I think they are calling them. We had stopped it to watch one and were standing near a little girl about 4 years old who was holding a stuffed Donald Duck. She saw Donald on one of the floats and started getting really excited. Donald spotted her, made a surprised face, waved, blew kisses, and made a heart sign with his hands. The little girl was so happy. It was just the cutest thing.
Yesterday was Hollywood studios. I went to try to get a LL for Rise of the Resistance as soon as the LL was available (7:00 am) and didn’t get a reservation until 5:15. At times the standby lane was at 180 minutes. We attempted rope drop, but didn’t quite make it. This was another day, aside from RotR, that I think I wasted money on the lightning lane. We did the rides that we could, and also went to a couple of shows. Honestly, I was too sore and tired to care about missing a few rides. After dinner we decided to ride the monorail just for the heck of it. We had a nice view of the MK fireworks.
Over all the trip was good, but I would prefer to do our next trip at a less crowded time. I also want to plan some rest days into the next trip. Next up is Disneyland for B’s graduation next spring. I need to start now to try to get myself into better shape before then.
We can hear the soccer girls running and shouting in the hallway. I really hope they have an early curfew.
WDW was fun, but also crowded and exhausting. I am too out of shape to go to a theme park 4 days in a row. We only made rope drop the first 2 days. We did Animal Kingdom with out using Lightning Lane. I think that was our best day over all. The weather was just about perfect.
We rope dropped EPCOT and went straight to the new Ratatouille ride along with most everyone else. We were in line for about 40 minutes, were almost to the ride, and it broke down. We waited it out for about another 40 minutes. I was just about to suggest we leave when they got it going again. It’s a cute ride, but I certainly wouldn’t stand in line for over 2 hours for it like some people did.
That evening we decided to stay and watch Harmonious. It started raining (I now own an official Disney rain poncho) and it kept getting harder as the evening went on. I’m surprised they didn’t cancel the show since there was lightning in the area. When we left I could barely see where I was going due to all the rain on my glasses and streaming down my face.
The next day was Magic Kingdom. We didn’t rope drop and most of the good lightning lane times were snapped up quickly. I feel that I wasted my money on it that day. I didn’t get to do a few of the rides I wanted, but that’s okay. We were able to do plenty of other stuff. The new fireworks show is phenomenal.
We did see the most adorable thing though. They are still doing the mini parades, or cavalcades I think they are calling them. We had stopped it to watch one and were standing near a little girl about 4 years old who was holding a stuffed Donald Duck. She saw Donald on one of the floats and started getting really excited. Donald spotted her, made a surprised face, waved, blew kisses, and made a heart sign with his hands. The little girl was so happy. It was just the cutest thing.
Yesterday was Hollywood studios. I went to try to get a LL for Rise of the Resistance as soon as the LL was available (7:00 am) and didn’t get a reservation until 5:15. At times the standby lane was at 180 minutes. We attempted rope drop, but didn’t quite make it. This was another day, aside from RotR, that I think I wasted money on the lightning lane. We did the rides that we could, and also went to a couple of shows. Honestly, I was too sore and tired to care about missing a few rides. After dinner we decided to ride the monorail just for the heck of it. We had a nice view of the MK fireworks.
Over all the trip was good, but I would prefer to do our next trip at a less crowded time. I also want to plan some rest days into the next trip. Next up is Disneyland for B’s graduation next spring. I need to start now to try to get myself into better shape before then.
We can hear the soccer girls running and shouting in the hallway. I really hope they have an early curfew.