The I must be totaly carzy solo 2009 trip report, WDW Day 3

[DisBride2009]

Great photos. I always wanted to go to Disneyland. I love your in room pics...that was a nice view.

****KEEP ON POSTING DISER ****
~Melissa

 

[EastYorkDisneyFan]

So lets see I need to fisish my last day at disneyland before going on to WDW. Why do I get the felling this one will take a while.

 

[EastYorkDisneyFan]

So when I last left off I was getting ready to leave.

That morning I woke up and had room service deliver breakfast to my room, of Banana's foster mickey waffles. After breakfast I heeded over to Downtown Disney for a bit as my flight didn't leave until 3:00 and the Disneyland express wasn't picking me up until 12:00. After exploring downtown Disney for I headed back to the hotel to explore the grounds.

Here are some pictures of the waterfall by the wonder tower.

 

[EastYorkDisneyFan]

I also got some pictures of the mini Jungle cruise lagoon.

Next I took some pictures around the iside of the main building of some of the displays.

 

[EastYorkDisneyFan]

Then it was time to go. I headed out the front door of the hotel and over to the waiting area for the Disneyland express. Once on the bus I was on my way to LAX with thoughts of meeting great new friends (some of which I have mentioned in this report), new memories and hopes of coming back again to WestFest 2010.

 

[EastYorkDisneyFan]

And now with Disneyland down it's time for a Walt Disney World trip report.

 

[EastYorkDisneyFan]

Just a note to say that the second post on page one has been edited to show the page numbers for each of the trips.

 

[EastYorkDisneyFan]

My trip began at about 7 in the morning with my last minute packing of my tolitries and my computer. I took a picture of my bags just in case Magical Express grabbed both of them as I only had on luguge tag but the airline I was flying on allowed me to check two bags for free, yes there are airlines other then Southwest that still do this.

After landing in Orlando for the first time since 2006, as on my last two Disney trips I only flew out of it (in 2007 I flew to Barcelona first and then arrived in WDW Via the Disney Magic on the Trans Atlantic cruise, in 2008 I arrived back in Florida after flying in to LAX via the Disney Magic again this time though the Panama Canal), any way back to this trip report. First I headed over to baggage claim to pick up the bag that did not have the Magical Express tag on it. After that I had to go back upstairs and across to the other side of the airport to get to the DME counter. Once there I found they have there own version of "FastPass", if you have all of your paperwork that they send you with you then you can bypass the counter entirely. First you show your information to someone at a check in desk and then they scan your ticket and ask you how many bags you have then they direct you to the lines for the individual resorts.

Once I got to Pop Century I had a bout a 5 minute wait to check in I was off to my room on the back side of the 50's building room number 3334.

 

[EastYorkDisneyFan]

Oh yeah and by the way the fridge you see siting there was really nasty inside and sat their for about two days.

 

[EastYorkDisneyFan]

Up next was a trip to my favorite of all the Disney Parks.
Incidentally the list is a flows:

1.) Epcot
2.) Disneyland
3.) Magic Kingdom
4.) Disney's Animal Kingdom
5.) Disney's Hollywood Studios
6.) Disney's California Adventure

So I was headed to Epcot.

 

[EastYorkDisneyFan]

Before heading to Epcot I stopped at Everything Pop for some lunch as it was almost 3 and I hadn't eaten since this morning back at home, I had the Chicken Penne and a carrot cake for desert, and I garbed my refillable mug then too.

 

[EastYorkDisneyFan]

Here's some of my photo pass pic from the front of Epcot

 

[EastYorkDisneyFan]

After garbing some pictures in front of Spaceship Earth, I headed over to it to take a ride on the new version, but what's this it has a line and a 20 minute wait. So I decided to skip it for now, and head over to the Land pavilion and see what the wait/ FastPass return time was for Soar'n. It was about 50 minutes if I remember correctly, I garbed a FastPass for later and decided to see how bad the line was, I didn't want to spend an hour in the line so I decided to head over to World Showcase via Journey into Imagination, all I can say about that is I like Figment. After that I was back to World Showcase and I saw this passing overhead.

Up next a few pictures of the with the Illuminations barges in place.

After that I walked around World Showcase, I stopped in France to see the chair balancing act, I didn't get any pictures as the sun was in my eyes. I continued my stool around the lagoon and then stopped in Norway as the wait for Maelstrom was only about 5 minutes. After seeking the spirit of Norway I decided to wait for the film.

Up next was a ride in Mexico with the Three Caballeros. Then I went to see what the wait for Test Track was, it was way to long for me as I had a dinner reservation for Boma at 7 and I wanted to have time to go back to Pop and change. Up next I took my first ride on the new Spaceship Earth, it's OK. Then I headed back to Pop where I changed my shirt before heading to Boma.

 

[EastYorkDisneyFan]

I think I need to get my butt in gear and update the TR.

 

[EastYorkDisneyFan]

I forgot that I also encountered a photopass photographer in Japan well I was walking around world showcase. When I handed him my photopass card he joked that it was fake and wanted to know where I had gotten it from him, I told him that someone in the front of the park dressed like him had given it to me.

 

[EastYorkDisneyFan]

I think I need to get back to this one, I'm not sure if anyone is still reading but I'm going to continue it anyway.


After leaving Epcot I head back to my room at Pop to change my shirt and head to my dinner reservation for that night at Boma at the Animal Kingdom Lodge. This is where I took my only food porn shots of the trip, every other meal I forgot completely to do it.

My first course

My Main course


and finely the good stuff desert

I just have one thing to say about Zebra domes amazing, how can you get a more perfect desert made with chocolate.

After dinner and the use of my first table service credit, I was heading back to Epcot for the night. When I got there it was nearing the time of park closing and I had a FastPass for Soarin' so what do I do skip Iliminations or go on my first ride on Soarin' of the trip.


I decided to skip Illuminations that night and head into the Land pavilion. I ended up getting the front row on the left side, also I was actually paying attention to how WDW loads compared to DLR. In DLR they load each section one by one where as in WDW they load by row. When I had gotten off of Soarin' Illuminations was over. At this point there was suposed to be a Dis meet at the Pool at the Boardwalk, first off I walked in circles trying to find it and then when I got there i thought everyone had left for the night (it had actually been moved to Pop), so I headed to the buss area to get a bus over to Downtown Disney to get a bus back to Pop. Once back at Pop I decided to turn in early as I would have a very busy and Long day ahead of me. I would be making an attempt at the Ultimate Magic Kingdom Touring Plan from Touring Plans .com (ding!).

 

[Kymie]

Im still reading! Love the photos!

 

[EastYorkDisneyFan]

cool i still have a reader

 

[Tribilín]

cool i still have a reader

You can count one more Haven't seen your TR before, I'm very interested in solo trips!

 

[EastYorkDisneyFan]

I know I haven't posted on this for a while and I definitely need to finish this one before April, so like Julie Powel and the Julie?Julia project I am setting myself a date, I want to finish this by March at the latest. My next part will be probably about the craziest day of my trip and then longest, the day I attempted the Ultimate Magic Kingdom Touring Plan.