Trip Report The 6 Parks, 4 Days, 26th Birthday Extravaganza- COMPLETED

Hello everyone! I’ve been back from Orlando for one week now, so I figured I might as well get this started (I miss it so much).

This is just the entry post, I’ll begin telling the tales of adventure later :)
 

Princess Leia

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Day 2, Part 8... The one with the first bad ride photo face

Are you ready for this? Because Everest was the first ride that had a ride photo option, and ooooh boy this trip made me realize that I look awful in surprise photos.

I should probably mention that I am terrified of heights and roller coasters... but I wanted to challenge myself on this trip. I was doing quiet ‘Hail Mary’s in my head in line for Flight of Passage, and that became a recurring thing on the trip lol

Despite being scared out of my mind from the anticipation, I loved Everest. I felt totally alive when I walked off the ride! Erin, well, she also doesn’t like coasters and wasn’t a fan like I was. Katie and Josh are both coaster junkies and had no problem.
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Alright, here it is.... in all it’s “I took a picture of the screen’ glory:
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Clearly loving life here.
We checked out the Jungle Trek next, and despite seeing very few animals, it was gorgeous to walk through.
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Hey Everest
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Next stop, Dinosaur, another first for me. Since we were out of FPs, we had to do standby for this one, and I think it ended up being a 30 minute wait?
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Sooooo this ride scared the ever living crap out of me. We were in the front row, and even though I had watched a video of it online, it didn’t exactly prepare me for how dark this one was? Like, actually dark. Also, I didn’t save the ride photo, but I was hunched down, looking in the opposite direction of the big scary Dino to my right.... to a smaller version of the same scary Dino. Well done, Disney, nowhere to hide.
“I survived a Dino attack” selfie.
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What’s in my hand? A phone charger that I lost the charging cord for somewhere in Animal Kingdom and didn’t realize until the next morning.

Oh hey Josh
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Princess Leia

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Day 2 Part 9

Picture of the ladies
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Satu’li Canteen time :D
While Josh and Katie tested the mobile ordering, and Erin got in the regular line, I got in line outside for a margarita.
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It was quite delicious. While in line, I texted Josh “Red or Green”. Josh said ‘green’ so I bought a green beer for him as a way to repay for the dinner at Ohana. Tried out mobile ordering for the first time, and holy moly, this is a great thing for Disney. So easy to use, I loved it.
Just as I loved this salad
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I could eat this every day. :hungry:
So, I learned there was a slight communication between and me and Josh. He thought I was ordering beer for me.... while I thought I was ordering for him. So enjoy your free beer, Josh!
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Erin ordered the cheesecake, which was so pretty!
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After lunch, we made our way out of the park, but not before some quick shopping. Katie’s shoes caused her some major blistering and bleeding, so we had to find a replacement pair of flip flops. After some searching, we found a pair, and made our way to the DHS bus. While in line, Katie made FPs for Aerosmith for her and Josh, and Indy for me and Erin.
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Made it!!
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We parted ways, and I got my hands on one of these for the first time in several years:
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Princess Leia

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Day 2, Part 10
The one with a lot of Star Tours
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The Standby wait time was set for 60 minutes (I think), so Erin and I had a lot of time to stand around... and wait... and wait... and get ticked off at the young teenage boy in front of climbing over everything because he saw other older teenage boys do the same thing.
Luckily I had my Mickey bar.
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We also watched some of the Jedi training academy while we waited.
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Finally made it inside!!
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Hi Rex :)
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This was my first time riding Star tours since it changed, and I loved it! The only issue I really had was that the prequel-set queue does not match the sequel scenes (I know they swap them out for upcoming movies, but it felt wrong).
 

Princess Leia

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Great update! Isn't FOP amazing?

So how did you like Festival of the Lion King? Seems like all the "first time thrill ride" adventure was going well!
I hadn’t seen the show in ages, but I think it’s great in the new location. My friends all liked it too.

Katie just was talking about Flight of Passage today, we loved it so much.
 

Princess Leia

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After Star Tours, Erin and I walked over to Launch Bay. We briefly ran into Katie & Josh, who were on their way to Star Tours, mentioned they were going to try to nap, then leave for the Magic Kingdom for dinner.

I can’t find the pictures of Erin & I with Kylo Ren, but man, people aren’t kidding when they say that the M&G is uncomfortable. “Are you afraid?” He asked us. “Yes,” was my answer.

Luckily, Chewy was happy to see me.
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Chewy also got to second base with me when he poked at my birthday button, but that’s neither here nor there.

Next up, the Frozen sing a long:
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I’m pretty happy I saw this show, and not going in for Beauty & the Beast or Little Mermaid. Don’t get me wrong, I loved those growing up, but Frozen was refreshing, and Erin and I sang along to everything.
On our quest for popcorn, we ended up following these two for a little bit:
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The Indy stunt show, unlike BatB or Mermaid, is still exciting for me.
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After Indy, Erin left for her dessert party at MK, so I had the park to explore by myself.
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Hello Muppets :)
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Got in line to meet Star-Lord and Groot. Groot even had a birthday song for me. It went like this: “I am Groot, I am Groot, I am Groot.”
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(Slight Infinity War spoiler, but I am really curious as to how this M&G has been after the movie, like what kind of questions the cast member is getting)
 

Princess Leia

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What’s next, is it Tower or Terror?
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No, chickened out and went to ride Star Tours two more times (I even had a red card the second time!) After waiting an hour to ride the first time, it was about a 5 minute wait the second time, and then a walk on for the third.
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I thought I was pretty neat. I did end up feeling a little light headed after the third ride though (and instead of looking for a dinner spot, I just ate Craisins 🙄)
I ended up choosing to skip Fantasmic and the other show to ride rides and meet Olaf.
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Olaf was telling me about the many candles on my cake (too many candles lolol)
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Hi BB-8, where’s Poe?
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First time on Toy Story Mania... definitely a ride to enjoy with someone else.
Alright, now is it time for Tower of Terror?
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I walked all the way up to the front, watched the wait time go from 90 minutes to 13 (that was kind of cool)... and then turned around and walked away. I chickened out. So, at that time, the park was about to close, so I walked to the bus that would take me to Magic Kingdom and went on my way.
 
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Princess Leia

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At the bus stop, I quickly realized that the Epcot bus was arriving first, so I hopped on that and got to the monorail.
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I snagged a FP for Pooh just as Happily Ever After was starting. Since I would be seeing that in a couple of days, I got right on Pooh.
This is also when I realized that I had to eat something (also because Han kept texting me and telling me to eat dinner). I was on such an adrenaline rush throughout the evening, but was starting to crash a bit.
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Super pretty Tangled area, this was impressive.
After some searching, I found a corn dog in Frontierland. Nothing else was really open (and I did not want to go to Casey’s in all of the HEA crowds), but I was very happy with it.
Next up was Jungle Cruise.... er, Jingle Cruise.
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And it was here that I found out that all of my friends were leaving the Kingdom and I would be here alone. I was a little ticked off, but Han seemed more upset for me, which was actually kind of sweet. I think he really wanted to be in Florida with me.

Anyways, the cruise around the Jungle was good, but I think my skipper was getting a little tired. He did notice my button at the end of the trip and wished me a happy birthday. I told him it was actually in two days and he said “Well that makes you a liar.” :hilarious:

I got in line for Pirates and set up a FP for Mermaid. Then I noticed that Mansion was a walk on, so I cancelled the Mermaid FP, got one for Pirates to use, and walked to Mansion.
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Unfortunately, I did not see my friend Leah who is a ghostess. I did however realize that Mansion is creepy at 11:30 and you’re alone.

Back to Pirates, and I was in the FP queue with a woman who breastfed her baby at various places in the queue. I’m all for breastfeeding in public, but I’m not sure this was the most sanitary place to do that (the queue always has that musty feel). Also, her other kids were running rampant and the grandmother didn’t seem too interested in reeling them in. Oh well, not my problem.
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It was 11:55, my feet were killing me, and I was drop dead tired. Time to say good night to the Magic Kingdom and drag my tired butt back to Pop.
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And drag it, I did. My feet felt like they were on fire. Walking from the bus stop at Pop to my room, which was a pretty short walk, felt like walking across coals. I couldn’t find any blisters, but my soles were killing me. Luckily, I just said hello to my friends (“We were wondering where you were”) and crashed in bed.
One day down, three fun filled days to go.

Step count: 33,632... no wonder my feet hurt.
 
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Princess Leia

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Day 3: Universal/Islands of Adventure

Woke up bright and early and hit the shower... and my feet still hurt. Breakfast bars for the first meal, then we just hung out in the room until Erin finished her glitter roots. Then it was time time to catch our Lyft.
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That Lyft was... interesting. The driver was blasting music and the AC was on full blast.
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First ride of the day: Transformers. 5 minute wait to get on a ride for which I had no experience with the IP. It really did feel fast at times, and that fall felt very realistic.
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We went and got coffee at Starbucks and just moseyed around a bit, before going to London.
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I was so incredibly happy, but not as happy as I would be to walk into Diagon Alley a minute later.
 

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