The psychologist and the agoraphobic visit DHS and EPCOT. Day 1.

suzycute

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Saturday 19th September 2009.

Cast
Me : Sue (aka Suzycute)
DD : Kate (aka Wishspirit)

Day one.

As most UK DISers will already have experienced, we were up very early the next day (3.30 in my case!! – although Kate slept till 6 – ie 11 UK time!! – I suppose that comes with the territory of being a university student with only 6 hours of lectures a week – don’t get me started about the £3200 fees we have paid this year!!).

I got to the food court not long after opening – 6am and filled our mugs. I bought Kate a breakfast bar and bought some cereal and milk for me which we ate back in our room.

We were at the bus stop just after 7 to get to DHS for early morning entry at 8. There was a bus waiting for EPCOT people at POP but had no customers (not surprising that it was 7am and it didn’t open till 9!) – so he said he would take the very few sad people who were up early and waiting to go to DHS!

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Kate and I standing in the queue at POP.

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Just to prove we were on the bus really early!!

The place was deserted when we got there and we were first in the queue.

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Slowly the crowds built up and there was a good atmosphere.

We were let in to go up to the rope about 7.45 and found ourselves waiting just behind the rope. Behind us was an American woman who recognised the lime green mickey heads on our t shirts as being part of the DIS community to which she also belonged and we had a chat. :disrocks:

Kate, who has the longest legs, had already been primed by me following my trip with DH last year to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary. Those with the longest legs walk quickly behind the Toy Story CM’s doing the Toy Story Trot heading to the fast pass machine without passing go or collecting £200. Those with short, fat legs (ie me!) walk as fast as they can, knowing they can’t possibly keep up with those with long legs, to meet them as soon as they get the precious fast pass tickets and join then the queue for the first ride.

Kate had not ridden this ride before but am glad to say it lived up to the hype and she loved it – despite me thrashing her! I realised that I had forgotten to re look at the “cheats” that I had looked up some months earlier but maybe that prevented a complete and embarrassing defeat!

We then went to Muppet 3D, the Movie Ride and Tower of Terror (which we love!).

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Unfortunately Rock N’ Roller coaster was down so we couldn’t ride – but we still did Toy Story twice more with fast passes before lunch time. By late morning, the early morning wakening had begun to catch up with me and, after sharing a pulled pork sandwich for lunch, we decided to head back to POP for a snooze out of the mid day sun and high humidity. Some hours later and somewhat cooler thanks to wonderful air conditioning; we headed out to EPCOT for the evening.

We rode Spaceship Earth (the first time for Kate with the new ending) followed by a wander through Future World to Mexico where we rode the boat ride there. I ate salmon at the Sunshine Seasons food court but Kate wasn’t hungry.

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We then rode Soarin’ (in the front row) – one of our most favourite rides which never fails to impress – and which almost every time the audience bursts in to spontaneous applause at the end (where else would you get that??). This was followed by a rather tame Journey in to Imagination.

A little window shopping at Mouse Gear was followed by a wander to the bridge between UK and France to stake out a spot for Illuminations – my favourite show in WDW. The crowds were really light and we didn’t really need to stake our claim for too long.

I got a beer from the pub in the UK – served by a typical English bar maid – ie she didn’t look at me or interact throughout the sale – felt just like home!! Kate got some chicken nuggets from the counter service in America.

We were surrounded by Brits watching Illuminations and enjoyed chatting with people who were enjoying Disney as much as we do.

We were very impressed with the bus service back to POP at the end of the evening. There were loads of us and the busses kept coming. Before long we were back at POP, just stopped long enough to take this piccie before becoming comatose in our beds!

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wow, you were up so early and lasted to see Illuminations - respect :worship:
 
Similarly impressed you last till the end of the day and Illuminations :goodvibes
 

Great first day :thumbsup2

I love the fact you got a picture to prove you were on the bus so early :rotfl2: Brilliant!

V impressed you managed to last the whole day considering you were up so early.

Looking forward to more.....
 
Wow, early start even being on UK time! Well done for getting on TSM so many times :thumbsup2 Our DHS day wasn't as well exctuted as it could have been, but DH and I weren't too bothered.

You did well to stay up, loved the pic of that car :lovestruc
 
Very impressed with the amount of time you gals spent at the park today! I'd have been in bed by midday if I was up at 3:30am!
 
Very impressed with the amount of time you gals spent at the park today! I'd have been in bed by midday if I was up at 3:30am!

Oh, we were. We are a big supporter of naps, I rely on them (being a student and all!)

Another great post mom, although a few too many silly pictures of me!
 
Great first day, you did better than us at HS we only managed a few hours before the heat won.
 
It's great seeing the photos of POP - I'm getting SO EXCITED that I'm going to be there in just over 5 months time, for the first time! :dance3:

Also great to see the photos of the parks, I'm really looking forward to going back to my fave place on Earth!

Great reports, looking forward to catching up with your other threads soon.
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