He's very easy-going and just goes with the flow with whatever I plan at Disney (does this sound familiar with all spouses?).
Umm.....no. My plans get turned upside down All. The. Time.
I said I wasn't going to start a new TR because, well, it is kinda bittersweet to be thinking about Disney when COVID-19 has pretty much shut down real life (as well as our happy place)
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Eventually you might even want to go back and do the November TR too...not sure if Disney will keep the same timing for all its US parks or just CA, but I heard a rumor DL won't be back until after the 1st of the year. And this was from a somewhat reliable source.
He has a new found love in the quick service at the Riviera on this trip and he literally went back twice after to get the same dish. You'll find out what it is soon!
I'll be curious because we weren't so impressed with it.
We managed to get a King Room over at Caribbean beach though in a building right next to the brand new Skyliner, which became our favorite mode of transportation during our trip!
Are you reading my TR....we had a little bit different experience. Then again you guys are active and mobile.
We left on a Friday night after work. This has been our usual routine now when we go for short weekend trips:
Lucky! It takes us all day just to get ready and going!
Even though she is much younger than old me
Old you??????? Puh-lease.... If you're old what am I dirt?
I'm glad we got a king bed! It actually makes the room seem, well, roomier!
I hate when we get a room with two beds. We barely fit in the same bed and then all that wasted space....
unfortunately it wasn't running at that time so I think she took the bus back to her resort.
Yeah. Thats the other bummer about the Skyliner. Kinda makes you take a rideshare (which we really can't) or stay at your resort.
What they don't tell you is that there is no Disney transportation prior to that ungodly hour,
Oh no, Disney transport begins running 45 minutes before the parks open so you have plenty of time to get there! --Or so the company line says.
I look like I'm ready for a (rough) night out.
Oh...Just stawp! All the time you're complaining about your looks, and you're always beautiful. Even when you were a drowned rat, you still looked pretty.
Yes there are lines everywhere. Every line was this long because they don't start letting people in until a little before and so it backs up. So luckily we made it into the park with like 15 minutes to spare! Whew! We were really lucky that day. If we had even been 3 minutes later, it would have been backed up exponentially so I'm not even sure we could have made it in in time!
6:37am:
It sounds like they had learned a lot by three weeks later when we were there. Opening was 8AM and it still looked just like that at 6:30AM. But they let us in by 7AM and we had time to spread out.
Bright Suns Breakfast Platter
Three-Cheese Egg Bite, Pork Sausage, Purple Potato Hash, Mini Mustafarian Cinnamon Roll. We split this since it was quite a bit of food and I don't usually eat a lot that early. I liked the sausage and the cinnamon roll. The potatoes were cold so not the best, and the egg wasn't bad, just fairly standard egg rounds. Maybe next time I'll get the breakfast ronto roaster.
I wouldn't have minded trying that, but by the time we were searching for breakfast, they weren't offering breakfast and had switched to the lunch/dinner menu. My tummy was not up for anything that rich since I'm not a person who normally gets up that early. It was barely 9AM at that point and I'm usually sitting up in bed reading my phone and playing Mahjongg.
I kept checking the RoTR boarding group status, and it seemed to be stuck on one set of numbers for the longest time so we figured it was down for a while
When it goes down, normal reset time is an hour minimum. I found out the reasons behind it the weekend before Disney shut down.
Spoiler: They have to get everyone off the ride when it goes down. I think if you're on your way to interrogation, they have to let the ride take its course. I've not heard of anyone being taken off the ride after you launch into space. Except in one extreme case and that was a serious closure. All the vehicles currently in play have to go to completion. Then they have to cycle the ride back to "opening position" the vehicles need to be in proper placement to restart the ride.
It takes a while to get everyone out. I'm sure like when we were escorted out after they Rey scene, they still had other people on the ride which had to either finish (with only the "B" show running) or get out somehow. Once that is complete, it takes more time for them to cycle through the ride for a test run. As you know its a pretty complicated ride.
The line to get to Epcot was pretty long but the skyliner lines continuously move pretty quickly so that was nice.
Wow! We never saw lines like that when we were there!
Imagine if we had to start taking temperature at the entrance now?
Welcome to your new normal theme park experience!
At Japan I also got the Sake Calpico slushy. Calpico is a japanese soft drink that reminds me of sweet yogurt and they made it into a slushy and had strawberry syrup swirled in. It was so good and not too sweet!
That sounds good! I wish we would have made it to Japan.
I order a bunch of stuff at France too:
We got almost all of that, not the champagne, but it was soooo good!
It was then that our BG was called!!!
I would have been a little freaked out being that far away from the park when the BG got called!
Even quicker! 18 boarding groups in 30 minutes!
They don't usually start with BG 1, often times they'll start with 7, 10, or 12.
I think they started calling groups at group 10 because the first few groups were for people who couldn't make it from the day before due to the ride breaking down
There has been all kinds of speculation as to what has been done with these early boarding groups. At DL, people were speculating that the early BGs were for VIPs. The conclusion people came to on the DL RotR Suoerthread was that it was just a random computer function where BGs would start.
It seems to be something they did a lot when the ride kept breaking down initially. Think it has gotten better and they start closer to 1
Interesting theory. I took a look at
The Chart and they got closer to starting with group 1, just before the closure. This is
DL's Chart, and I was surprised at how many times they started with group 1.
There was also speculation that the first BG number was a reflection of the expected ride performance for the day.
Because I broke a molar about 2 days into this Corona thing and since it's not an emergency, I just have to live with it. I can't imagine how fun it would be to get a popcorn kernel stuck inside there! <shudder>
Ouch! That sounds awful. I wonder if they would consider that an emergency here.
Now I can't even trust anything that comes out of your mouth!!
And you thought you could before?
