Re: Back to the Future? - UPDATE DAY 5- EPCOT
Day 6- Magic Kingdom Day 1
In hopes of getting to the park for the opening ceremony at 8:45, we decided we would bypass struggle bus times that morning, suck it up and pay the cab fare to the park. When I got up, I called a cab pretty much immediately, demanding it be there by 8. After we sat there for a while, we realized no cab had arrived. Well, we called the cab company and the man was blabbing some **** saying I told him something different and to call a different cab company. AJ, being the gentleman that he is, called the guy a stupid bastard, hung up, and contacted Julia's taxi company who picked us up around 8:30. We really should have just taken the bus at that point since we were going to miss the opening ceremony anyway.
I used this time for a selfie.
SIGN!
Unfortunately the cab drove us to the Ferryboat, which was ridiculous considering we could have just been dropped off at the Contemporary resort, bypassed the stupid $15 parking fee that they charged our cab, and made it to the park earlier. But nope, it was struggleboat times for us on top of a $40 cab fee and no opening ceremony. Lesson learned I guess! Our taxi driver was also basically Precious from the movie Precious, and pretty sure she was struggling for air throughout the entire ride.
It was a cold morning and it was also windy on the boat, so me and AJ sat on the floor of the boat taking struggleselfies.
A winter coat in Florida? Eugh.
Finally we got to the park!
The stupid cranes were getting in the way of my castle photos, but we got plenty anyways, with and sans crane. We could tell it was going to be pretty busy considering it was already pretty busy by 9 and it was the only forecasted sunny day of the week </3
Instead of rushing to the rides, we watched the show they put on at the castle. We ended up watching it like three times that day, it was fab and totally tugged my heart strings
First ride of the day was Big Thunder Mountain Railroad!
I thought it was an okay ride. I prefer the one in California. We waited about fifteen minutes for it which wasn't bad at all considering the lines got really long later in the day. Love the way the ride looks but not something I'd really care to reride unless they redid it like the one they just recently updated.
Splash Mountain was the next choice, which was probably a stupid decision considering we had just beautified ourselves at the hotel and were having bad flashbacks of all the water rides at Islands of Adventure, and also, it was about 55 degrees. It's not often you see someone with a winter jacket riding a water ride, but as AJ would say, #yolo.
As you can see, the lines were really long... NAWT. Vast difference to how they would be on the Friday.
We actually took a few selfies mid ride. Can't even believe how vain we are sometimes.
We were sitting in the front so we got a little more wet than we expecting, considering you get a light misting on the one in Cali.
I loved it. I've always thought it was such a cute and fun ride and the updates seem pretty good as well. Their batching is absolutely horrible though considering there's about a ten car build up at the station. Then there's the annoying audio that repeats "LOOKS LIKE BRER BEAR AND BRER FOX ARE CAUSING SOME KIND OF COMMOTION DOWNSTREAM. Yah yah, stfu it was cold and we just wanted to get off the ride at that point.
I was excited for our next stop which was Haunted Mansion. I had done this back in 2001 so I had almost no recollection of it, and when I did the one in California a year and a half ago it was themed to Nightmare Before Christmas, which was cool but I wanted to see how the original one was.
It's a great ride, I think. Nothing spectacular, but entertaining and enjoyable.
Next up was Fantasyland!
We were getting pretty hungry so we had some ratch-a-roni. We waited ages in line for it as well, and mine was an odd combination of macaroni, normal cheese, blue cheese, and balsamic vinegar. AJ got the bacon cheeseburger macaroni which is basically macaroni with burger toppings slapped on top of it.
After that we waited for a guy to come bring us to meet Aurora, who AJ is friends with. I don't have any pictures of this occassion on my camera sadly, so you will have to deal with it
Queues were getting pretty damn long at this point, so we walked through the new Fantasyland, which is pretty awesome. Only downfall is we didn't get to eat at Be Our Guest because reservations were full all week and the line was ages for counter service, as well as the Seven Dwarves ride being closed </3
It sure does look fantastic though.
We went to the Storybook Circus area, which I didn't know was the replacement for Toontown or whatever the heck they use to have there. I still thought Toontown existed, but nah. AJ needed the Barnstormer cred and unfortunately it had a 45 minute queue, but we sucked it up because mah boi needed his cred!
Hijackers: the Ride.
I can't believe I waited 45 minutes for a kiddie cred that I already had BLEGH.
Smoking construction worker </3
We went back to the old Fantasyland since our Peter Pan fastpasses were almost ready, but not quite yet so we did PhilharMagic, which I can't say much about because I was so tired I fell asleep through half of it. It seemed pretty decent though, kinda wish I had stayed awake but it was a walk on so meh.
AJ's favourite ride ever in the whole world was next, and I have to say I'm not a fan but this one is way better than the California version which is literally like two rooms </3 At least this one takes you through Neverland instead of flying above it and then the ride just abruptly is over before it began.
We walked through the castle and over to Tomorrowland.
This is how GROTESQUE that area was!
We basically said **** and went to find a seat for the parade where there were fashion faux pas and amputees a plenty.
Some whack marching band that didn't deserve a spot in the Festival of Fantasy.
A conceited family.
I'll try to keep parade pics to a minimum, the rest are on my Facebook. The parade was so good though, I loved it! We had really good seats too so that was a bonus.
We were hoping Tomorrowland would be less busy after the parade and it had died down a bit, so we did Monsters Inc Laugh Floor which was really cute. Kind of like Turtle Talk in a way, but with Monsters.
So glad the vile Spanish people beside us left eugh they were gross and rude.
Space Mountain fastpass was next and it felt good to bypass an hour and a half of waiting!
I think we rode the Alpha side which was pretty fun. I don't know if I like this one or the California one better. There was a vast difference between sides though in my opinion, with one side being fun and the other being rough. I wasn't sure which side I went on in 2001 and AJ needed both creds but we decided to save the other side for Friday and use our fastpass for it again.
After buying a pretzel for snacktimes, we got in the queue for Tomorrowland Speedway which was probably a 35 minute wait.
I gave AJ my fattening pretz cheese so he could eat it without my whining about him double dippin'
I let him drive because driving is a novelty to him still
We took pics while driving. We're awesome.
He was up to no good and bumped like a bad boy even though we had just scorned the bumpers moments before.
When we got back to the main castle area, there was something called Move It, Shake It, Celebrate It, which was a few floats and dancing. Pretty interactive with the characters and pretty fun also.
Snuck an obligatory photo of the statue, which has always been a favourite of mine.
T'was time for our Enchanted Tales fastpass so we headed there after saying hello to AJ's friend who had just finished work.
It was really cute and as much as I hate kids, seeing them being cute and not screamy whining messes was fab. Lumiere and the Wardrobe were also amazing. Definitely one for the kids but we didn't wanna miss it.
It was getting dark so we headed over to get a spot for the three night shows. Note that these are basically all of AJ's pics.
The Electric Parade was first, which was mostly a big fat MEHHH.
After that it was more waiting (IN THE FREEZING COLD EUGH), but then Celebrate the Magic started which was probably my favourite show of the trip along with the Festival of Fantasy parade <3 I thought "meh, projections on a castle," but it was amazing.
Pictures don't do it justice!
The fireworks were the last of the three shows, and as I said before, I'm not a massive fireworks fan but these were pretty good and Tink ZIPLINES which was neato.
We were right in thinking that the park would be dead after the fireworks, and it definitely was, so we put our plan into motion which was to get most of the rest of the rides done. Unfortunately we were also dead, so after hitting up Pirates and Small World, we realized we were too tired to really enjoy the rides so we called it a night. Pirates is one of my favourite rides at Disney so I enjoyed it, but Small World is meh. Thankfully they weren't singing Jingle Bells like they did in California, but I was half asleep. Everything was a walk on except Space Mountain, but we didn't want to be zombies while we were experiencing Disney. Oh yeah and before the rides we also got some food and a hot drink since we were super cold. I think it was at Peco's cafe or whatever the heck it was called.
Small World is a tough one because it's so cute and I want to like it but it seems to go on and on especially when we were as tired as we were.
We had missed our shuttle so we figured we'd get a taxi home. The guy at the entrance of the park told us to go to the Contemporary Resort and get a cab from there, which I wish we had done that morning, but we didn't know about it. NO STRUGGLE BUS OR STRUGGLE FERRY, but going to the Contemporary was another "here's what you could have had" moment! For a few seconds, we didn't feel like Ramada peasants.
Soon enough we were back at the hotel and I passed out fairly quickly since it was already like well past midnight and we had to be up for like, 5:30. Apparently I was all grumpy and rude to AJ while I was half asleep awww </3 Overall a good day, just a bit too busy. We got a lot done though and had a good time, but both decided we prefer Disneyland over Magic Kingdom. You do need two days to do the entire park though, I reckon.
NEXT- ANIMAL KINGDOM AND DISNEY VACATION CLUB LAWLS.
