mustinjourney
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- May 8, 2016
Although I would have happily gone for another rope drop, I knew a lie-in and later start was needed.
rope drop? by my count you haven't made rope drop once.
Maybe I’m just slow to catch on – it wouldn’t be the first time that’s been the case – but I guess I didn’t have this FP thing down as well as I thought.
It does take a couple trips to really get the hang of it. BTW -- you can scan in up to 15 minutes after expiration and it will let you in 99.9% of the time. After that, you can try and when it turns blue -- just say the buses took forever and security sucked and the CMs will almost always push a few buttons and give you a FP and let you in. I've done that a couple times for TSMM and BTMRR. I just show them the picture of the FP on my phone to show that I had it.
Besides me, nobody else was overly excited about LwtL, so we just stayed put.
I've gone on this ride 3 times and only when I'm doing the parkeology all ride challenge. Other than that, it's a hard pass for me...although if my youngest DD is too short for Soarin' on the next trip, I might take her on it while we wait for DW and other DD to ride Soarin. My last trip I opted for eating lunch while DW and DD road Soarin.
Treatment includes riding BTMRR and eating a Dole Whip or something Mickey shaped.
A flask is also a good way to cure the Disney blues. I know it takes the edge off for me.
I found it an awkward meet, not really sure if I should touch him for fear of popping him and sending him flying through Innoventions like a leaky balloon.
I would really be tempted to poke him. Seems like you have to do it.
My darling wife became the expert planner this morning.
Of course...won't help with the planning up front, but during the trip all of the sudden has 100 opinions on what to do.
Am I projecting my own experiences???
While they were at Starbucks, she had the brilliant idea to get on the MDE app and see if those missed FP could be changed for later. It turns out they can and she did get both a Soarin’ and LwtL FP for a couple hours later. Shut the front door! Seriously? Did I miss a memo on this? I always though if you missed your FP, it was gone, done. I had no idea you could rescue them in the app and try to reschedule.
Maybe it was good she stepped in to save the day. hahaha
Yeah -- MDE is pretty great. If you are diligent, you can grab like 20 FPs a day...especially at MK. This past December, I went to MK at 6 pm and rode everything in MK before 11:30 pm...and I had FPs for pretty much every ride. Even when a ride shows that it is out of FPs...if you keep refreshing the app, stuff will eventually turn up.
Thankfully, things were looking up. It was now time for our (originally) third scheduled FP for The Seas with Nemo.
Pretty sure a FP wasn't needed for this one. Feels like walking the empty queue takes longer than the ride.
I certainly prefer that smell to dirt. The Taj Mahal scene bothered me a little, being so obviously CG.
DW and I did a DVC tour last year that went behind the scenes with Soarin and I found out that EVERY single scene has some amount of CG. (polar bears, elephants, plane). Also found out that each location has some sort of tie to a Disney movie.
You probably already know, but the address on the mailbox is 82, the year Epcot opened.
I did not know this.
Next Update Questions for Fun:
1. We watch Happily Ever After, but we did not stand in The Hub. From where do we watch HEA?
2. During HEA, I have a snack that was new at the time (just debuted this year). What snack?
3. Katie does a ride for the first time. Which ride?
1. By 7DMT
2. cheeseburger spring rolls
3. BTMRR or Space