Chapter 4: "What the #$^&$* time is it!?!?!"
Saturday morning finds us out cold asleep. Suddenly, HHBG's phone alarm goes off. I still don't know why we don't use wake up calls, but whatever. It's 7 am, and our life sucks. HHBG goes off tot ake the first shower, because he's the morning person, and I need my additional 10 minutes of snooze. He gets out, and it's my turn.
We are off for EMH at DHS. We have a PLAN. Well, I have a plan, and HHBG is still insisting on arguing with me about my plan. he did this all frigging week. "Oh, that ride won't be crowded now, let's go over there first. No, now. I don't care that you want fast passes for that other ride before we walk over, it'll be quicker this way! ....... 60 minute wait!?! We should have gotten those fast passes...." and the like. He's a control freak who was out of his element, yes, but I was realy gettign sick of runnign after him and arguing all weekend, especially when, more often than not, I knew more about what was going on. In most cities, he's fine, but this is disney.
ANYWAY!
We have a plan. The plan goes like this: Toy story run, then FPs for RNRC, ride ToT (Maybe wice depending on FP time), go on RNRC, then head over to Epcot for rope drop there and hit Mission Space. This WAS the trip for riding everything the kids can't do, after all....
Well, right away the plan started having problems. We got to the bus stop right in time to see the bus drive off without us. By the time the second bus came, we had missed rope drop. We missed by 10 minutes, but that translated into a 40 minute wait on Toy story. We then walked over to ToT and RNRC. Halfway there, HHBG takes off without me, and by the time I get to him, he has already gotten his Fp for ToT (NOT RNRC). Grrr....So, now we are going to have to go stand by for RNRC which ALWAYS has the longer line. I yell at him for a while as we walk over to RNRC.
The line is out into the open area. huh? We walk up tot he front to be told that RNRC is experiencing technical difficulties and they have no idea when it is goig to open, and we can go get fast passes if we want. BUT WE CAN'T.
So, since we have an hour before our FPs, we decide to wait. So many people leave, we are only about 20 people from the front of the line, and they open up the queue. Woohoo!!
We get into the room with the album covers, and everything stops again. And we wait and wait and wait.....then an announcement comes that RNRC is experiencing technical difficulties. AGAIN. the queue had not been open for 5 minutes! talk about premature opening. We wait about 10 more minutes, and it becomes apparent that this is not a small thing, so they make an announcement that anyone who wants to get out of line may. We decide to leave, and are given free FP passes good for a WEEK for RNRC. Bonus!
We figure we'll come back Monday, and head off to ToT for our fast passes. We ride ToT, get off, and the line is listed as 10 minutes, so we ride again.
At that point, we had to go over to Epcot for our Behind the seeds tour. Since we needed to be in the front of the park, we went to wait for the bus.
And wait......
And wait.......
After 25 minutes, people start asking other busses where the bus to Epcot is, and are told to go ask at the information center. Two people in line go to find out at the bus center where the bus us, and are told "it's on the way".
20 more minutes pass. Repeat preceding questioing.
20 MORE minutes pass. A bus labeled EPCOT drives up, TURNS AROUND, and leaves. ***!?!?! Again, people head over to the info center, and AGAIN are told a bus is on the way.
20 MORE MINUTES PASS. Another Epcot labeled bus pulls up and DRIVES RIGHT PAST US!! People are livid. They are calling Disney and screaming into phones. People are complainign about being late for ADRs,a nd are being told "well, it's not OUR fault. Why didn't you just take the boat?"
15 minutes later, ANOTHER Epcot labeled bus drives past us. One guy is about to run into the street and stand in front of a bus and force it to stop (we overhear him muttering to his wife). Then a "VIP Cast Members" bus pulls into our stop. A lady gets out, tells us she knows we are having problems, but the bus picking us up originates at Epcot, so there's nothing they can do, but her bus, which is NOT an Epcot bus will take us over.
We all thank her and pile on. She repeats 5 or 6 times that the bus we are waiting for originates in Epcot (whatever kind of lame excuse that is), gets dropped off for her work, and we are finally off.
By the time we get to Epcot, we have to rush to check in for our tour. We get checked in and 15 mintues later, are on our tour. Which is lame. They basically just repeat everything you hear on the "living with the Land" boats, with a little more explanation obout their pest control, which wouldn't work fror the home gardener. they then walk you around, don't allow a lot of time for questions, and the tour guide couldn't answer most of our questions, anyway. It sucked, and wasn't worth the $25 we paid for the two of us. If you're going to offer a tour called "behind the seeds" with a "Real Cm who works in the greenhouses", get someone who can actually answer in-depth questions, not who just seems to be repeating what he was told to say, and who has the answers to the bo-bo questions he was obviously trained for.
We finished the tour and decided we were starving. We weer goign to "eat around the world", but Epcot was a MOB SCENE!! Neither HHBG nor I do well in crowds, adn there was just WAY too many people. We decided to go to France and see if we could do walk-in for lunch.....
Coming soon: Do we get to eat? And extreme park hopping.....
....dork. So he checked in, and I was up. I nicely smiled at the girl and said to her, 
the picture is what HHBG gets for NOT listening toyour plans!
