This is Magical, this is Horrific, and this is Epic! TR 8/27-9/7/25, update 9/20*

[pkondz]

I never get my requests anymore sad

That's unfortunate. I counted on those requests.

It was nice and not near as noisy as I thought it might be!

Good! I hadn't thought about that, but considering your room location, I would have thought it would be noisy.

Haha I sure don’t but 20 something Andi sure does!

The queue is different on test track and the inside portion has a different overlay but basically the same turns, stops, bumps etc….

Ah. So the overlay is different after all. I wouldn't expect the track to change. $$$$$$$

Andi dives deep on these things and Disney definitely changed the temperature for cooling to save money, she found many reports of this, she is a sleuth haha

The truth comes out!

Haha I’m sure money grab all the way!

The rain really put a damper on the evening, literally haha

Not the delicious Nomad lounge churros!

Some day...

It was but really a good one overall despite the rain!

That's good.

We had a little in the room breakfast with our grocery items and of course the yummy cold brew coffee.

And beer.

The bus was not very busy and we got a seat, yay

Always a plus when you get to sit.

it was a party day so the park was closing at 6pm to all non party guests, which was us.

Getting tossed out with the riff raff, huh?

We rode HMx2, JC, Piratesx2, PPF, Under the Sea, Dumbo, People Moverx2, WtP, the carousel, Tiana’s Bayou, 7DMT, Tron, IASW, and Andi rode SM.

Holy smokes! Lots!

Not at all windblown.

You must've been so terrified!

We both tried the Macaroni and Cheese hand pie

Never heard of that! Was it good?
It also looks (with the melted cheese) that you can't really eat it with your hand?

We headed back to the resort for a later afternoon rest and there was a wild thunderstorm while we were resting. We didn’t think much of it but we sure heard and saw some wicked thunder and lightning.

Good timing.

We heard the people in front of us at the IG saying the storm took out all the rides at all the parks except for Safari since it is gas powered.

We looked on the MDE app and yes indeed almost every ride across the parks were closed. Oh no

Whoa.
Not a great night to do a non-refundable party.

We ordered the Italian Beer Sangria, this is really good! Andi loved it

Not a beer fan, but it sounds interesting.

Small Margherita pizza with mushrooms.

I never thought of putting mushrooms on a margherita pizza! But... I don't see any basil?

Well, at 10pm everything was still closed except MMRR opened but had a 40 minute wait, since nothing else was on line, and the park closed at 11pm, we decided not to go!

Yeah, not really worth going. Shame.

 

[luvpoohandcompany]

This area is my favorite! Andi loves it as well! So many good restaurants and lounges in this area and the walk ability can’t be beat!

This is exactly why we love staying at the YC. Everything Is so easy and stress free. There’s nothing quite like popping into France for breakfast or the Rose & Crown for a pre-dinner G&T.

We thought we the price for the special event we could go into some favorite houses multiple times and that was not the case!

That’s a tad disappointing as it was an expensive ticket. I’d have thought numbers would have been low enough to allow you to revisit a house or two.

I will be honest I just had fun this day and didn’t take many pictures and didn’t write much in my

I always have few photos of my favourite days. Sure sign you’re having fun

We heard the people in front of us at the IG saying the storm took out all the rides at all the parks except for Safari since it is gas powered.

I was shocked when I heard all the rides had been taken out by the storm. Certainly scuppered your plans at HS. I imagine Disney had to issue refunds for the MK party goers.
Friends of mine visited Disney, US and Epic this past July and said that the a/c in Disney was rubbish compared to other parks. They felt even the shops and restaurants at Disney didn’t offer the same relief from the heat. Now I know why!

 

[Wood Nymph]

Well, at 10pm everything was still closed except MMRR opened but had a 40 minute wait, since nothing else was on line, and the park closed at 11pm, we decided not to go! Ugh such a bummer, we really wanted to make use of the extra 2 hours riding TSMM, ToT, SDD, and Rise but it just wasn’t possible.

That was really unfortunate. The deluxe hours are too infrequent to take advantage of every trip. At least you were able to escape the storm.