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Let's Do This!
Since that last update was so short I'm just going to go right ahead and write about the next day, because that took me barely no time to write!
So, every time I've gone to Florida in recent years, it's been a tradition to meet up with my friend Liz.
Little background for newcomers: Liz and I have grown up together and became very close in high school. We share a love of musicals, Disney, Harry Potter, and travel. She moved down to Florida for the CP in 2011 - Jey and I drove down to spend a few days in the parks with her before she started - and after she finished the CP she moved down permanently for college and took a part-time job in the company. With the exception of 1 trip a few years ago when we just didn't have the time to, it's been tradition for us to spend a day together. So when we were planning this trip I told her the dates. Originally she was supposed to meet up with us for Dapper Day, but once it got closer, she suggested meeting up with us our last full day. It worked out perfectly because outside of a lunch reservation that we could easily add her on to at the last minute we had nothing planned - no FPs, no plans, nothing. Jey and I had left this day open purposefully so that we could just do whatever we wanted and just go at our leisure.
The night before we had sent Liz a text telling her that we were both planning on wearing dresses. So we made it a "cute dress day".
It turned out that this was also the second to last Friday Liz was going to be in Florida - she had graduated a few months earlier and she was moving. So not only was it our last full day in the parks it was also kind of a one last ride for her too.
I had texted her earlier in the morning as we were headed out and told her to just meet up with us sometime before our 11:30 lunch. She promised she would be there around 10-10:30 depending on the traffic so we headed off to Epcot!
We didn't want to do any rides without Liz so Jey suggested we see how long the lines were for some characters. She had a Polaroid camera with her and wanted to take some character pictures to make a collage.
Baymax's line was basically non-existent.
It was pretty quick and Jey was able to get a picture of him. Since ti seems that they kind of expect you to get pictures with the characters I'm the one to get the picture here:
Bye, Baymax!
After that we glanced over at the Joy and Sadness line. It was about a half hour long according to the CM, so we decided to get into it - Jey adores Inside Out and really loves Sadness so she didn't want to miss the opportunity to see them.
The line was probably about 45 minutes long. We didn't move for a long time, but the couple in front of us in line was very pleasant and we passed the time having a great conversation with them - they were there with their daughter's band and so we were talking about school and such. They helped pass the time and knew all about our (lack of) plans for the day.
We finally got into the Meet and Greet and it was one of the best fur-character meet and greets I've done in WDW. Joy was perfectly into character, pulling us both in for individual big hugs and then dragging us each over to Sadness. I got more time with Sadness because Joy pointed out my glasses and the top of my dress and hair and how we looked the same, so Sadness was mildly excited. All-in-all it really was worth the wait.
When we got out of the line we began a conversation with the CM who was working to direct people where they wanted to go. She was very nice and very chatty and we had to excuse ourselves after a little bit because Liz had just sent a text saying she had parked.
We told her we'd meet her out in front of Mousegears so I went to the ATM to quickly take out some extra cash and we stood in the shade of the overhang, waiting. She got up quickly and after hugs and hellos we headed off into World Showcase!
Since that last update was so short I'm just going to go right ahead and write about the next day, because that took me barely no time to write!
So, every time I've gone to Florida in recent years, it's been a tradition to meet up with my friend Liz.
Little background for newcomers: Liz and I have grown up together and became very close in high school. We share a love of musicals, Disney, Harry Potter, and travel. She moved down to Florida for the CP in 2011 - Jey and I drove down to spend a few days in the parks with her before she started - and after she finished the CP she moved down permanently for college and took a part-time job in the company. With the exception of 1 trip a few years ago when we just didn't have the time to, it's been tradition for us to spend a day together. So when we were planning this trip I told her the dates. Originally she was supposed to meet up with us for Dapper Day, but once it got closer, she suggested meeting up with us our last full day. It worked out perfectly because outside of a lunch reservation that we could easily add her on to at the last minute we had nothing planned - no FPs, no plans, nothing. Jey and I had left this day open purposefully so that we could just do whatever we wanted and just go at our leisure.
The night before we had sent Liz a text telling her that we were both planning on wearing dresses. So we made it a "cute dress day".
It turned out that this was also the second to last Friday Liz was going to be in Florida - she had graduated a few months earlier and she was moving. So not only was it our last full day in the parks it was also kind of a one last ride for her too.
I had texted her earlier in the morning as we were headed out and told her to just meet up with us sometime before our 11:30 lunch. She promised she would be there around 10-10:30 depending on the traffic so we headed off to Epcot!
We didn't want to do any rides without Liz so Jey suggested we see how long the lines were for some characters. She had a Polaroid camera with her and wanted to take some character pictures to make a collage.
Baymax's line was basically non-existent.
It was pretty quick and Jey was able to get a picture of him. Since ti seems that they kind of expect you to get pictures with the characters I'm the one to get the picture here:
Bye, Baymax!
After that we glanced over at the Joy and Sadness line. It was about a half hour long according to the CM, so we decided to get into it - Jey adores Inside Out and really loves Sadness so she didn't want to miss the opportunity to see them.
The line was probably about 45 minutes long. We didn't move for a long time, but the couple in front of us in line was very pleasant and we passed the time having a great conversation with them - they were there with their daughter's band and so we were talking about school and such. They helped pass the time and knew all about our (lack of) plans for the day.
We finally got into the Meet and Greet and it was one of the best fur-character meet and greets I've done in WDW. Joy was perfectly into character, pulling us both in for individual big hugs and then dragging us each over to Sadness. I got more time with Sadness because Joy pointed out my glasses and the top of my dress and hair and how we looked the same, so Sadness was mildly excited. All-in-all it really was worth the wait.
When we got out of the line we began a conversation with the CM who was working to direct people where they wanted to go. She was very nice and very chatty and we had to excuse ourselves after a little bit because Liz had just sent a text saying she had parked.
We told her we'd meet her out in front of Mousegears so I went to the ATM to quickly take out some extra cash and we stood in the shade of the overhang, waiting. She got up quickly and after hugs and hellos we headed off into World Showcase!