We got to the park around 1:45 (we're APs) and watched a shortened FOF parade due to light rain. We rode a few rides and got in line to get our wristbands around 4:15 in Tomorrowland. I wish we had gotten in line for the peoplemover or something again, as the line was pretty long and reached to the peoplemover queue. By the time we got through the line, it was a walk-up.
We went and changed into our Anastasia and Drizella costumes and went to line up for Pooh and friends. I think it was around 5:20 when we got in line and were the third party in line. The line started to build quickly behind us. My sister went to go get the pumpkin milkshake around 6ish after seeing someone in line come back with one. We met Pooh and friends right about 6:40pm. We also met them last year and encountered the same issue again, their photopass photographer seems to run behind. We had the character attendant take our photos, but only received two. We also didn't receive autograph cards this year (maybe they hadn't arrived with them yet?).
We walked over and saw a posted 20 min wait for Cinderella and Elena, that was a walk-in. We had a fun interaction with Cinderella. When we exited, we stopped by the photopass studio to try out some of the new photo props. We had a really fun photographer who had us laughing the whole time. We exited and had missed the announcement of the party starting (I love hearing this!). We waited for a few minutes to see if Anastasia and Drizella came out. We found a mysterious line formed near Pinocchio's and asked what it was for and no one knew what they were waiting for! We finally found a cast member to ask and were told it was a magic shot, but there wasn't anyone there for photopass yet. We passed some time waiting for A&D by trick or treating in Ariel's M&G line and Philharmagic. Both of these lines were very, very long and we got 2 pieces of candy out of each stop, definitely skip until later in the night!
We finally found Anastasia and Drizella out roaming and got a picture with them, it was a fun interaction. There was a man dressed up as Cinderella that they walked all around with, it was funny to watch! We headed off to Liberty Square and got in line for the Gravediggers. We loved meeting them last year and had a lot of fun again. They really didn't like hearing that we were dying to meet them, we got a major stinkeye! People were taking turns holding spots to take the hitchhiking ghosts magic shot here. My sister stepped in some fresh gum and went to go find something to get it off her shoe, so we didn't do this then.
We went to check on the line for pirates and found it was really long, out to the egg roll cart. We decided to grab a snack and get a spot for the first parade. I loved the caramel pretzel last year and wanted to get it again. The new dessert holder at Golden Oak Outpost made that a little tougher. We waited it out and then I had issues that I was rang up for getting one, even though I didn't order it. It took about 20 mins for a manager to come over and fix it. My sister grabbed us a spot for the parade while I was waiting. We had some fun interactions including Flynn telling me he was already married! haha
After the parade, we headed for Pirates and waited about 20 mins to ride. One of our favorite entertainment CMs is a live pirate this year or we would have skipped this.
We made it to Tomorrowland as the fireworks started going off. We found an empty bench (with a large puddle in front of it) facing the speedway and the castle. This was a great no-stress spot to enjoy just the fireworks. From our vantage point, we could see three large launch points. What looked like behind the castle, behind BOG and behind storybook circus. As the finale was ending, we hopped up and got in line for Space Mountain. I think we waited around 15 minutes to board. When we came out, the line was long, stretching back into tomorrowland. We decided to check out the Monsters inc overlay, it was cute. The CMs here were a lot more generous with candy, we went through 3 times and filled up our bags. We crossed back over to Liberty Square and watched the parade from across the bridge near the gazebo. We had a few mins to grab the hitchhiking ghost magic shot too.
One thing I didn't see mentioned anywhere (but definitely could have glossed over) is that if you want to make a quick exit after the parade, they try to let people out during any lag in the parade. This mainly happened between sets. You need to be where the flagpole is, we only saw one open spot where this is. The CM were great at handling this, we were so impressed watching it. We love the parade so stayed and watch it cross through. We exited as soon as the parade finished to a very long line for the Yacht and Beach bus and no bus in sight (we really didn't like combined bus service this week). We hopped right on to a Boardwalk bus waiting and walked around back to the Beach club.
