Back to Life, Back to Reality….
Whew. Well I can’t believe it’s here and gone already! But in all honesty when I think about our first day down there it feels like forever ago. Here’s my trip report [I apologize in advance for the number of times I say the word ‘Awesome’ in the report.]
Saturday:
5am- On the road again. I live in Central Kentucky and we usually drive to Walt Disney World. In all honesty it takes about 14 hours including stops and when we leave at 5 we usually end up in Orlando around 7pm. So it’s not as bad as it sounds. The night before though, I did not sleep very good, I was pretty much like the kids in the Disney commercial “We’re too excited to sleep!”
7pm- We met our other friends who had flown down earlier in the day at the Saratoga Springs Resort. We stayed in a 2 BR, 2 BA vacation club condo. It was so NICE! The only thing that kind of surprised me was that the rooms had outside entrances. That was probably my least favorite thing about the resort—and I’ll explain why a little later in the report.
We really didn’t do too much that evening, we had dinner at Artist’s Palate (the Saratoga Springs food court) which was great and pretty much crashed.
Sunday:
We hit Disney MGM…I mean…Hollywood Studios. First thing we got a FP for Toy Story Midway Mania, and rode the Great Movie Ride. I didn’t really have any expectations about TSMM I thought it would be cool, but as I am TERRIBLE at Buzz Lightyear I wasn’t too pumped for another ride I can lose at. Guess who got the highest score? You guessed it, I did!!! It was probably my favorite thing from the whole week. [And PS- Thank you to whomever posted here the strategy and tips, when the ride first opened. They really helped!] We did the usual DHS stuff, nothing new to report there.
One of the things I really wanted to do was see the Narnia exhibit and have my picture with Prince Caspian. We were in line… la de da de da… and out of the backstage area walked 2 CM’s in dressy clothes for CM’s and behind them walked Matt Lauer and his family. We were so shocked! I couldn’t even take a picture. A few minutes later it was our turn to meet Prince Caspian, who was really great. He asked who we were and my BFF said “Oh I’m a Princess” and I said “Oh, I am just a peasant” so he made me an honorary Princess of Narnia for the day.
The other notable thing from Sunday was that I rode the TOT for the first time since my very first trip in 2001. I was a little nervous and of course the CM in the loading elevator sat us in the front and poked fun at me. Classic Samie though, I was all scared and screaming my head off and when we were done I was like “Can we go again?” After that we walked over to the 2nd Fantasmic show. Fantasmic was awesome as usual. It may be me, but it seemed like there was a lot more pyro at the finale.
Whew. Well I can’t believe it’s here and gone already! But in all honesty when I think about our first day down there it feels like forever ago. Here’s my trip report [I apologize in advance for the number of times I say the word ‘Awesome’ in the report.]
Saturday:
5am- On the road again. I live in Central Kentucky and we usually drive to Walt Disney World. In all honesty it takes about 14 hours including stops and when we leave at 5 we usually end up in Orlando around 7pm. So it’s not as bad as it sounds. The night before though, I did not sleep very good, I was pretty much like the kids in the Disney commercial “We’re too excited to sleep!”
7pm- We met our other friends who had flown down earlier in the day at the Saratoga Springs Resort. We stayed in a 2 BR, 2 BA vacation club condo. It was so NICE! The only thing that kind of surprised me was that the rooms had outside entrances. That was probably my least favorite thing about the resort—and I’ll explain why a little later in the report.
We really didn’t do too much that evening, we had dinner at Artist’s Palate (the Saratoga Springs food court) which was great and pretty much crashed.
Sunday:
We hit Disney MGM…I mean…Hollywood Studios. First thing we got a FP for Toy Story Midway Mania, and rode the Great Movie Ride. I didn’t really have any expectations about TSMM I thought it would be cool, but as I am TERRIBLE at Buzz Lightyear I wasn’t too pumped for another ride I can lose at. Guess who got the highest score? You guessed it, I did!!! It was probably my favorite thing from the whole week. [And PS- Thank you to whomever posted here the strategy and tips, when the ride first opened. They really helped!] We did the usual DHS stuff, nothing new to report there.
One of the things I really wanted to do was see the Narnia exhibit and have my picture with Prince Caspian. We were in line… la de da de da… and out of the backstage area walked 2 CM’s in dressy clothes for CM’s and behind them walked Matt Lauer and his family. We were so shocked! I couldn’t even take a picture. A few minutes later it was our turn to meet Prince Caspian, who was really great. He asked who we were and my BFF said “Oh I’m a Princess” and I said “Oh, I am just a peasant” so he made me an honorary Princess of Narnia for the day.
The other notable thing from Sunday was that I rode the TOT for the first time since my very first trip in 2001. I was a little nervous and of course the CM in the loading elevator sat us in the front and poked fun at me. Classic Samie though, I was all scared and screaming my head off and when we were done I was like “Can we go again?” After that we walked over to the 2nd Fantasmic show. Fantasmic was awesome as usual. It may be me, but it seemed like there was a lot more pyro at the finale.
