11/24/2014
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| Cinderella's Castle after the Frozen show--Elsa "creates" her Frozen castle to the tune of Let It Go |
Last day in Magic Kingdom. Last (fun) day of our trip too. ;( Tomorrow we're flying home, so that doesn't count as vacation. More like torture.
Storm warnings have been increasing throughout the week. Epcot started out as a nice day, but ended with a freakin rainfall by the end of the night. Universal the next day wasn't much better. Cold, wet--only Harry Potter could put a smile on my face that day. We saw better weather during the middle of the week. Balmy, slightly breezy, perfect. Then it became waaaaay too hot and humid toward the end of the week. Oh, and it rains on sunny days too. Geesh, Orlando, make up your mind already! There's a 20 degree swing in weather from day to day, which makes it hard to figure out what to wear. First too little, then too much. It's a wonder more people don't get sick.
The evening news says there's hurricane warnings in place for tomorrow. Yikes. We're flying home tomorrow! Seriously crossing our fingers that the clouds will bypass Orlando tomorrow. Today's been relatively dry; a few splatters of rain in the afternoon but not too bad.
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| Chocolate apples? That's new. |
By the time we got to the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train this morning, the wait was already 120 minutes, so we thought we'd come back later in the day. As we were in Fantasyland riding the other rides, we kept checking in every so often to see how long the wait time was. Man, the wait time only grew longer and longer! Finally, around 4pm, we just sucked it up and got in line. Waited an hour in line...and the ride broke down. Grrr...
A worker made the announcement that they had no way of knowing when the ride would resume, so a lot of people in front of us left. And I mean it was an exodus of people leaving the line. Dude, you already waited more than an hour--what's 20 more minutes? My guess was it'd take 20 minutes to fix.
Well, that's good for us because that helped shave off an hour of waiting in line (my estimate of how much more we'd have to wait had the people in front of us all stayed in line). And wouldn't you know it...5 minutes after they made the announcement that the ride broke down, they started issuing FastPasses to everyone in the front of the line. So we got FastPasses to come back! Yee-haw!
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| Our FastPasses to Seven Dwarfs |
The Seven Dwarfs Mine ride takes you thru:
We rode The Little Mermaid ride 7-8 times today because it's an awesome ride and we don't know when we'll get to visit California Adventure. We took advantage of the fireworks show to be in Fantasyland (that's when a lot of people take time out to watch the fireworks, so the lines at the rides aren't so long). Little Mermaid had no line, so the worker let us go on it again without having to get off, exit and wind thru that whole long queue again. I love the workers at Little Mermaid. Every time we go in, no matter which day it is, the workers are there with a smile on their faces. Not so much in Small World. Ironic.
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| Princess ornaments |
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| ...and princesses dancing |
With the Peter Pan ride, as the ship's about to take off on the journey to Neverland, the worker will wave her hand across the bar and *snap!* the bar magically falls into place on your lap. Love that!
Oh, yesterday they debuted the new queue at Peter Pan's Flight. We couldn't figure it out as we were waiting in line yesterday--when we came to Magic Kingdom earlier in the week, the line for Peter Pan was the basic Disneyland queue. You wait a bit outside, then wind around metal bars under the roof. But yesterday, there's a whole new section that opened up, and the line now winds thru the Darlings' home. There's artwork of Peter Pan on the walls, you can see the kids' rooms, toys, Nanna's doghouse. I thought it was because the first day we were here, the line wasn't that long because there weren't that many people in Disney World that day. Yesterday saw a significant increase in foot traffic. So I thought this is where they open up to when they have more people.
Nope. This is a brand new queue area that debuted very quietly, unannounced. But people in line had their smartphones and I guess there were already articles circulating online about the new queue. Ah, the digital age.
It's supposed to make waiting in line more bearable. They've done this with Winnie the Pooh's ride, Seven Dwarfs, Little Mermaid--I think it's working out well. Kids don't get antsy cuz they have stuff to play with while waiting in line. Oh, and the best thing about the new queue at Peter Pan?
Air conditioning.
It was freakin hot and humid today. Angel had just reached her boiling point when we stepped into the a/c'd room. Thank God. She's a right little monster when she's out of sorts.
The Frozen show:
We kept promising ourselves that we'd take pictures of Main Street and the entrance to Magic Kingdom during our time here. Alas, there was too much to do and we didn't have time to take pictures. So as we're leaving for the last time this trip, we managed this shot of the front entrance:
We were on a schedule because the hotel shuttle leaves at designated times, so had to hurry to catch the shuttle. That's what happens when you're having too much fun and you don't want to leave: you don't get pictures.
But it's been a magical trip, and Disney, for the most part (besides that horrible Small World experience), has lived up to our expectations.
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