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As this is dragging out way too long and if I don’t finish soon I will have went on two more trips since this one! I don’t think I am going to get a trip report written for my adults only “honeymoon” last July, but I do hope to write one for my upcoming solo trip... but we shall see. Writing is a part of my daily life now between the Dis, school, writing on my own blog and being a staff writer for Magical Distractions. If you guys haven’t checked out the Magical Distactions website you should! So I am going to try my best to get this wrapped up ASAP. I have everything written, it is just adding the pictures to it and posting!!!
Just a bit of a side note. Even though this day at Disney wasn’t full of rides, it is full of smiles. Nearly every single one of the photos I took of my kids on this day they are smiling. This is why I love Disney, this is why we make sacrifices to go, this is why return so often. It is a magical place!
It is so sad when you know you only have a couple more sleeps at Disney! We woke up early on 9th day, and Erik and I had breakfast in the room. The kids were not ready to eat so we brought cereal with us. We were at the bus stop by 7:45am, and Lorelai was making good use of her new gloves.
And as you can see in the background, Ethan was tempting the yellow line gods….
And before we knew it, we were making this walk at 8:11am. Not bad at all!
But we were not the only ones with Epcot on the brain!
The Thanksgiving crowds were really gaining on us… I was so glad that this day’s focus was NOT on rides, because I am sure the wait times were awful.
They started letting people in around 8:30 and we followed the crowd toward Test Track, where we were stopped outside MouseGears…and we were in the sun, and it was CROWDED! Not my favorite way to start a day in the parks, that is for sure. Our goal was to ride TT straight away and head over to Mission Space.
Well we finally made it to TT, but after about 10 minutes of waiting in an unmoving line Lorelai and I had enough. We care nothing about designing the cars, so I ask her if she wanted to do the single rider line, then we could head over and do Mission Space before the boys. The boys wanted nothing to do with not making cars, so they let us go.
A few minutes later this was Lorelai and I:
We were the first set of single riders that didn’t get placed in the empty car…. A tip for others who want to ride together, but not design a car. Just go through the single rider line! It takes a few minutes for the people who are designing cars to catch up to you! Lorelai didn’t care, because now we were headed for Mission Space.
We decided to….
Go Orange!!! (BTW, we were here before Erik and Ethan ever made it on TT!)
She started regretting it while we were listening to the safety spiel, but I talked her into relaxing. The family that was next to us was riding for the second time that morning, the mom had decided that one ride was enough for her so we had two of the kids in our capsule.
The verdict? Not much different than Green, for me, but Erik and Ethan would not enjoy it.
Finally the boys rode TT, although Erik held up his hand and blocked them. LOL
We met back up with the boys inside TT and let the kids play for a while, since the line for MS was already too long for another ride.
Then we headed toward Club Cool and Starbucks, because it was morning and we needed coffee!We sat outside the back of Club Cool and enjoyed our drinks…
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not the ones Ethan kept bringing us, those were awful. We headed over toward the Imagination Pavilion, but Figment had an enourmous wait, so we bypassed it and when into the Pixar show instead.
What can I say we are goofy…
Just a bit of a side note. Even though this day at Disney wasn’t full of rides, it is full of smiles. Nearly every single one of the photos I took of my kids on this day they are smiling. This is why I love Disney, this is why we make sacrifices to go, this is why return so often. It is a magical place!
It is so sad when you know you only have a couple more sleeps at Disney! We woke up early on 9th day, and Erik and I had breakfast in the room. The kids were not ready to eat so we brought cereal with us. We were at the bus stop by 7:45am, and Lorelai was making good use of her new gloves.
And as you can see in the background, Ethan was tempting the yellow line gods….
And before we knew it, we were making this walk at 8:11am. Not bad at all!
But we were not the only ones with Epcot on the brain!
The Thanksgiving crowds were really gaining on us… I was so glad that this day’s focus was NOT on rides, because I am sure the wait times were awful.
They started letting people in around 8:30 and we followed the crowd toward Test Track, where we were stopped outside MouseGears…and we were in the sun, and it was CROWDED! Not my favorite way to start a day in the parks, that is for sure. Our goal was to ride TT straight away and head over to Mission Space.
Well we finally made it to TT, but after about 10 minutes of waiting in an unmoving line Lorelai and I had enough. We care nothing about designing the cars, so I ask her if she wanted to do the single rider line, then we could head over and do Mission Space before the boys. The boys wanted nothing to do with not making cars, so they let us go.
A few minutes later this was Lorelai and I:
We were the first set of single riders that didn’t get placed in the empty car…. A tip for others who want to ride together, but not design a car. Just go through the single rider line! It takes a few minutes for the people who are designing cars to catch up to you! Lorelai didn’t care, because now we were headed for Mission Space.
We decided to….
Go Orange!!! (BTW, we were here before Erik and Ethan ever made it on TT!)
She started regretting it while we were listening to the safety spiel, but I talked her into relaxing. The family that was next to us was riding for the second time that morning, the mom had decided that one ride was enough for her so we had two of the kids in our capsule.
The verdict? Not much different than Green, for me, but Erik and Ethan would not enjoy it.
Finally the boys rode TT, although Erik held up his hand and blocked them. LOL
We met back up with the boys inside TT and let the kids play for a while, since the line for MS was already too long for another ride.
Then we headed toward Club Cool and Starbucks, because it was morning and we needed coffee!We sat outside the back of Club Cool and enjoyed our drinks…
not the ones Ethan kept bringing us, those were awful. We headed over toward the Imagination Pavilion, but Figment had an enourmous wait, so we bypassed it and when into the Pixar show instead.
What can I say we are goofy…
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