That was a long day yesterday. I didn’t have the energy at the end of it to update my journal. I figured I could do it on the plane. Fortunately I could upload some old journal entries because the airport has free internet.
I am very goal oriented. On a vacation, I like to gnaw on a good goal. I fell into one here when my friends started getting their Goofy shirts autographed by the characters. I joined in and suddenly it became a goal to get as many as possible. This gives me something to do instead of relaxing.
We had a plan to see if we could hit all four theme parks. The day started with Epcot. We did a few rides that we had missed. “Honey, I shrunk the audience” was really bad. We had to wait through a five minute commercial for Kodak before we even got in, and the rest was utterly predictable. Of course, I’ve been on two other 3-D attractions, so I knew what to expect.
Then we went off to Hollywood Studios. We finally got on the new Toy Story ride. Because it is so new, everyone wants to try it and the lines are long. A fastpass wouldn’t have helped so we used the brute force method of waiting in line. Then lunch at the same place my family went to last year. No mutant squirrels this time.
When we got to the Magic Kingdom it had started raining; There was no wait for Space Mountain. We split up with the others going off to do their own rides while I did my own thing. I got a snack and got autographs of convenient characters. Rain helped there. When we met up again, after the parade, none of us really wanted to go to Animal Kingdom. There wasn’t anything to see there that we hadn’t already. So we went back to Epcot.
We wandered around the World Showcase before my friends left to go back to their hotel. I then ran around and found as many characters as possible. It was hard because it was getting to the end of the day when they start hiding. The rain helped in that the lines were shorter, but Snow White refused to come out at all because of it. Her loss. I could have gotten two Princess Jasmines, one from two different parks. It is weird seeing the same character in different places.
I ended the day with a trip back to the Magic Kingdom to see the fireworks. Then back to the hotel. That was hard because huge crowds were leaving at that time and the buses didn’t list that they were going to my hotel. I neded up going back to Epcot by monorail and caught a bus there. I got there and had time to eat and pack.
All in all I traveled to five theme parks, but only three of them were different.
I should have gone to Downtown Disney…