Day Seven - Part Two - January 11th, 2016 - So Many Rides!
When we left Be Our Guest, it was still only 8:45am, so the park did not officially open for another 15 minutes. We realized that the Mine Train was already up and running, so we quickly headed in that direction, which isn't a very far walk at all from BOG.
We had planned on skipping this ride today, since we didn't have a Fastpass for it, but since the line was non-existent we actually walked right onto it! We even got to admire some of the queue line at our own pace! There were not even enough people to fill the entire train, and we ended up riding with only 6 other people!
On January 6th when we were on this ride, the cameras must have been broken or my Magicband didn't work properly, because we didn't get any pictures or video from the Mine Train that day
. I didn't realize this until way too late to try and do something about it. You'll notice in the pictures above, Luke and I were actually taking a selfie since we didn't realize there were pictures on this (if we did know, we would have been making funny faces...). Here's proof of our selfie
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By the time we got off, the park had started opening, so we headed straight for Peter Pan's Flight. We had less than a 10 minute wait until we were in a ship, sailing over London! It was a really cute ride, but there's no way I would wait for over an hour for it! The standby line is really great too, so much detail! We actually had a Fastpass for this scheduled for later in the day, but we didn't feel the need to re-ride it so we went on our
MDE app, dropped that FP+ and managed to pick one up for Haunted Mansion in the afternoon. Score!
From there, we decided to go on Winnie the Pooh. I had my entire bedroom done in Pooh bear when I was younger, so I love this ride! So cute! And the interactive queue line is fantastic! I also prefer the motion of the ride over the Pooh ride in
Disneyland. (They are practically the same ride, but I find the one in Florida has better movement during the windy day part).
When we exited Winnie the Pooh, it was only 9:20. The park had only been open for 20 minutes, and we had already been on three rides! This day was going wonderfully! We decided to head over to Tomorrowland. We were trying to hit any and all rides we had missed on our first MK day, so when we saw a 15 minute wait time posted for Astro Orbiters we jumped in line. That ride is a tight squeeze for two adults! But it does offer some pretty great views
It was then time to use our first FP+ of the day for Space Mountain! I don't even know what I was doing with my face, but I think the award for funniest face has to go to the random stranger in front of me...I'm also not sure why Luke looks like he's freaking out?
Next up was Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin and Luke beat me again. I might have mentioned this already, but this ride is so much better in California. I don't like that the guns are attached and you can't pick them up in WDW. In DL, by being able to pick the gun up your aim is so much better! And yes, this is yet another ride photo where we are making stupid faces...
We started walking towards the castle but stopped for Photopass pictures under the Tomorrowland sign. The photographer was a bubbly little thing, very friendly. She was fascinated by my magenta-coloured hair and wanted to talk about hair dye for at least 5 minutes. Poor thing wasn't very good with the camera though...It's a good thing we have plenty of other great Photopass pictures that I didn't mind these ones not turning out.