Not long after Spectromagic passed, I reset my camera on the Gorillapod and set it up on the trash can we've been standing next to. Now, I bought the SLR-Zoom Gorillapod, so I'm thinking this thing should be pretty sturdy. Well, it is until you start trying to bend it to meet your needs. After lots of bending and maneuvering, I finally got it into a stable position. Problem solved, right? Wrong!
After Spectromagic, everyone moved into the street (there were tape lines in the street to mark where everyone could stand). So now the crowd shifts and here's what it looks like to the camera:
Needless to say, after all this camping and setting up and the Gorillapod issues, I'm fairly aggravated.
Especially with Captain Bald Spot and his video camera who are taking up 1/3 of the frame.
I was also fighting not setting the camera correctly to take the pictures. So between the settings and the tripod, most the frustration was my own fault.
It wasn't a complete waste, however:
After Wishes, everyone went back to the buses except for my sister and I. Instead, we took advantage of EMH to ride the big rides.
9/6/2009 10:31 PM EDT Sister and I are taking advantage of EMH. Shot Spectro and Wishes; very frustrated with how Wishes went.
I handed my camera to my wife to take back to the room (so no pictures for the rest of this post), and we headed straight for Frontierland. Splash had a standby time of 20 minutes, and BTMRR had a standby time of 30 minutes. We chose Splash first, and it probably took us 5 minutes to get through the queue and then we almost immediately boarded our log. 20 minutes was a severe overestimate.
Splash was great as always; we didn't get very wet. The wettest part for us was when we got caught by the spray shot off when a log goes down the last drop. The people in front of us got most of the big drop's splash I believe. After singing "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Da", we came out, tried to find our picture but never saw it and headed toward BTMRR.
9/6/2009 10:54 PM Did splash. BTMRR is supposedly 40 minutes but I don't think so.
As we're winding through the queue of BTMRR, the people in front of us decide to start taking down the chains that keep people walking back and forth. Now I admit that having those chains up wasn't necessary, but have a little respect people. We followed them only because everyone else would probably start passing us up if we chose to keep winding through the queue.
Needless to say, we probably walked through the queue longer than we waited when we actually got to the line.
9/6/2009 11:21 PM The wildest ride in the wilderness http://twitpic.com/gt1rk
9/6/2001 11:22 PM BTMRR was much shorter than 40 minutes. Now taking a spin with Buzz.
Those are only a minute apart because I couldn't get the post with the picture to upload in the loading area.
That's right, after doing the two big Frontierland attractions, I wasn't quite ready to go yet. My sister and I walked across the entire park to Buzz. Wait time was 20 minutes, and that was probably about right.
While in the queue...
9/6/2009 11:26 PM DD batteries. Disney, can you really tell me there's no double meaning here? http://twitpic.com/gt2g1
You can all tell where my mind was at that point...
After Buzz, we looked around near the Space Mountain construction. Little did we know we would get a much better look at the end of the week.
Finally done for the night, we headed back to the buses. Did I mention that Pop's buses were at #18? All the way at the end of the bus stop.
Even without my camera, I was still thinking about taking pictures:
9/7/2009 12:00 AM Mickey balloon stickers on all the transportation make it difficult to take pics out the windows.
Back at Pop, everyone else was already in bed. It wasn't long before we joined them.
Coming up: A morning at EPCOT
My 50mm works and I do enjoy it but 30mm? That would be awesome!
). I'll probably write another one tomorrow.
