First let me give you a little background info as I write this over my lunch break. My DGF and I both just graduated from graduate school in May, she got a job in Baltimore, I in Houston. Not so convienient.
I started looking into going to WDW again (we were there for a week in March) when I saw big discounts on rooms in the area around Labor Day. I looked into flights, and it is basically only about $40-50 more for BOTH of us to fly into MCO than it is for her to come to Houston or me to Baltimore, so we took advantage of the Labor Day 3 Day weekend.
Friday August 29.
Get into the airport, get our Mears shuttle, and head to the Master's Inn Maingate West. Our drvier gets a little lost and brings us to Maingate East... oh well, it's late, we have no plans, and we get to where we are going. Hotel isn't great. Beds and a Shower, which I guess is all we were looking for plus it had a shuttle, so what more do we want for $35 a night right??
Saturday August 30
The one thing we didn't do in March that Julie (DGF) really wanted to was a full day at MK. We had been with a WDW newbie, but a DL lifer, so we were trying to show him the rest of the World. So we hop a shuttle at 10:10 over to MK, get there at about 11 after a stop at another hotel and at the Studios and Epcot. It's ok though, the park is open until 11pm tonight.
:sohappy:
Anyway, we just want to take our time and not rush, and just enjoy it. We head in toward Adventureland and get a Dole Whip and a water, and imbibe those on our way through the SFR Treehouse. From there, we go and grab a FP for Splash Mountain and take pictures of Julie pouting by the sign telling us BTMR is closed for rehab. Head back, hop right on PoC and Jungle Cruise. We had I think Jim from Syracuse NY as a CM for Jungle Cruise, and he was especially good. If anyone knows him, send him our compliments.
We head back and ride Splash Mtn, then head toward the Castle as we're going to try and get a PS for a late lunch, but no go, as we expected, but no big deal. We head into Tomorrowland, and get a FP for Space Mtn, rode TTA, and go into AE. I don't care what y'all say, I still like that show, but there was basically no wait time for it at all. We grabbed some food then went over to HM. On the way we stopped to watch some of the Cinderella's Surprise Celebration, and right next to us a couple got engaged, no pressure or anything though.... :lookaroun
Waited for HM for 30 minutes in the "line", longest wait all weekend, which is nice. They really need to do something there though. It was completely congested with people trying to get FP, trying to use FP, and people waiting for their FP times (why FP if you're going to stand to wait to use it :hammer: ?) Anyway, rode it, enjoyed it and headed back to TL. Got a FP for Buzz and hopped Space Mtn. Went over to Toontown, rode Goofy's barnstormer, then took the MK RR around the park and back to Toontown so we could walk to Buzz.
(Somewhere in here we rode IASW and got a FP for Pooh, but how it all worked out, I can't remember right now )
Rode Buzz, and headed back through the park to see Hall of Presidents. In 10+ trips, I don't think I ever saw this, and it is a great show, how I always skipped it I'll never know. Headed from there to Country Bear Jamboree, went and got food, and rode Pooh. Watched the Night parade (name escapes me) and then quick got a FP for Pan, then rode Snow White Scary Adventure. Fireworks time, first time seeing Tink Fly, and then rode Pan and Splash Mountain. Had to fight the 11pm parade getting back to our bus stop, but we made it, and crashed when we hit the bed.....
More to come (up next Epcot with a journey to the Studios)
I started looking into going to WDW again (we were there for a week in March) when I saw big discounts on rooms in the area around Labor Day. I looked into flights, and it is basically only about $40-50 more for BOTH of us to fly into MCO than it is for her to come to Houston or me to Baltimore, so we took advantage of the Labor Day 3 Day weekend.
Friday August 29.
Get into the airport, get our Mears shuttle, and head to the Master's Inn Maingate West. Our drvier gets a little lost and brings us to Maingate East... oh well, it's late, we have no plans, and we get to where we are going. Hotel isn't great. Beds and a Shower, which I guess is all we were looking for plus it had a shuttle, so what more do we want for $35 a night right??
Saturday August 30
The one thing we didn't do in March that Julie (DGF) really wanted to was a full day at MK. We had been with a WDW newbie, but a DL lifer, so we were trying to show him the rest of the World. So we hop a shuttle at 10:10 over to MK, get there at about 11 after a stop at another hotel and at the Studios and Epcot. It's ok though, the park is open until 11pm tonight.
:sohappy:
Anyway, we just want to take our time and not rush, and just enjoy it. We head in toward Adventureland and get a Dole Whip and a water, and imbibe those on our way through the SFR Treehouse. From there, we go and grab a FP for Splash Mountain and take pictures of Julie pouting by the sign telling us BTMR is closed for rehab. Head back, hop right on PoC and Jungle Cruise. We had I think Jim from Syracuse NY as a CM for Jungle Cruise, and he was especially good. If anyone knows him, send him our compliments.
We head back and ride Splash Mtn, then head toward the Castle as we're going to try and get a PS for a late lunch, but no go, as we expected, but no big deal. We head into Tomorrowland, and get a FP for Space Mtn, rode TTA, and go into AE. I don't care what y'all say, I still like that show, but there was basically no wait time for it at all. We grabbed some food then went over to HM. On the way we stopped to watch some of the Cinderella's Surprise Celebration, and right next to us a couple got engaged, no pressure or anything though.... :lookaroun
Waited for HM for 30 minutes in the "line", longest wait all weekend, which is nice. They really need to do something there though. It was completely congested with people trying to get FP, trying to use FP, and people waiting for their FP times (why FP if you're going to stand to wait to use it :hammer: ?) Anyway, rode it, enjoyed it and headed back to TL. Got a FP for Buzz and hopped Space Mtn. Went over to Toontown, rode Goofy's barnstormer, then took the MK RR around the park and back to Toontown so we could walk to Buzz.
(Somewhere in here we rode IASW and got a FP for Pooh, but how it all worked out, I can't remember right now )
Rode Buzz, and headed back through the park to see Hall of Presidents. In 10+ trips, I don't think I ever saw this, and it is a great show, how I always skipped it I'll never know. Headed from there to Country Bear Jamboree, went and got food, and rode Pooh. Watched the Night parade (name escapes me) and then quick got a FP for Pan, then rode Snow White Scary Adventure. Fireworks time, first time seeing Tink Fly, and then rode Pan and Splash Mountain. Had to fight the 11pm parade getting back to our bus stop, but we made it, and crashed when we hit the bed.....
More to come (up next Epcot with a journey to the Studios)