WonkaKid
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I was pleased this morning to see that nearly all of the walls are now gone from Tomorrowland! And what we have in their place are some very pleasant grass patches. It all looks nice: it’s much more open and overall a great improvement.
Small report from the park this morning. For some reason, once they swiped our passes at the gate (we were the first in line), they let our line in. We had a huge jump on everyone else. I guess it took some time for the word to spread that that was how they planned to handle it -- to swipe and admit rather than to swipe and hold. So that was awesome and I got some great pics of a truly empty Main Street.
The second surprise: as we approached the hub, we saw that the right side's rope was about 20 feet closer to the castle than it usually is. So when 8:00 rolled around, once again we had a healthy lead on guests from the middle or left of the hub.
Lastly, we met a nice family from Seattle at the rope. They had a son who was 11 or 12 and a daughter of 10. They were very nice and when they told us the kids had set their targeting computers on PP, we said we'd do what we could to help them be the first people on the ride. So, once we were all let in, we took off at a brisk, intentioned walk ;-). The son of the family, however, bolted well past us so in the end they didn't need our help. I was second in line and when we turned to look for the rest of the family, we saw that they were about ten people back. Everyone at the front -- myself included -- were happy to let them join him. Since they'd all be in one pirate ship, it didn't really make any difference to anyone behind. One kid on one ship would be the same as a family of four on one ship. Anyway, it was my good deed for the day and they were very appreciative.
A few more pics:
I decided to leave early today because I was crabby for a variety of reasons. So after lunch I chose to catch one more ride on Buzz and then to cut out. The last ride turned out to be worthwhile. I broke 2M and that was without a single stop or slow-down. So I was glad of that, at least.
An unlikely but still likely pairing.
Small report from the park this morning. For some reason, once they swiped our passes at the gate (we were the first in line), they let our line in. We had a huge jump on everyone else. I guess it took some time for the word to spread that that was how they planned to handle it -- to swipe and admit rather than to swipe and hold. So that was awesome and I got some great pics of a truly empty Main Street.
The second surprise: as we approached the hub, we saw that the right side's rope was about 20 feet closer to the castle than it usually is. So when 8:00 rolled around, once again we had a healthy lead on guests from the middle or left of the hub.
Lastly, we met a nice family from Seattle at the rope. They had a son who was 11 or 12 and a daughter of 10. They were very nice and when they told us the kids had set their targeting computers on PP, we said we'd do what we could to help them be the first people on the ride. So, once we were all let in, we took off at a brisk, intentioned walk ;-). The son of the family, however, bolted well past us so in the end they didn't need our help. I was second in line and when we turned to look for the rest of the family, we saw that they were about ten people back. Everyone at the front -- myself included -- were happy to let them join him. Since they'd all be in one pirate ship, it didn't really make any difference to anyone behind. One kid on one ship would be the same as a family of four on one ship. Anyway, it was my good deed for the day and they were very appreciative.
A few more pics:
I decided to leave early today because I was crabby for a variety of reasons. So after lunch I chose to catch one more ride on Buzz and then to cut out. The last ride turned out to be worthwhile. I broke 2M and that was without a single stop or slow-down. So I was glad of that, at least.
An unlikely but still likely pairing.
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