ambula603
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- Sep 4, 2019
Day 3 - Hollywood Studios Part 1
I had been reading up on how to attain a RISE boarding pass for about a month and knew this day would be a little stressful. I showed Jason how to do it while we were having dinner the night before thinking the more of us that could try, the better. On our HS day, I woke up with plenty of time (thanks to nerves) and Lilli woke up as well (she was so excited, she is a total Star Wars fan now after our binge movie week) in order to get situated. Lilli pulled up the time.gov on her phone and we were on the room wifi which had proved to be stronger than not. Jason heard us bustling and woke up and pulled it up on his phone to try. But I KNEW I would be the one to get it, I had been practicing for weeks! My fingers were so shaky but I was READY!
Well, wouldn't you know it, that little beat me to it!! Jason got the boarding pass! I think he got 62 or something, but we didn't care. We were on such an adrenaline kick and celebrated so much we woke up Scar! We ate some muffins and fruit in the room while we got ready. I wanted to take my time but I was just so excited to get to HS and get in line for Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway since we hadn't seen it before. So we left the room around 8.
Yall! I love staying at Boardwalk. Being able to walk by the water into the park, not mess with busses or Uber, what a breeze. We were in the first 20 or so people waiting before security would take us closer to the entrance. I know we made the short walk around 8 and waited in line outside of the entrance for about an hour. But it was ok because we were already awake and PUMPED for our day. We played Disney Heads Up on our phones and just laughed and had a good time.
The time stamp on this picture is 9:15 and you can see we are about the 5th family in the park!
EMPTY
Quite the change from when we rope dropped HS back a few years ago! This is when I learned that rope dropping is the absolute way to go! You get to ride so much more each day. We haven't gone back to our old sleeping-in ways yet. We do try to take a day off and spend it at the resort/pool, but if we are going to a park we are getting there an hour before it opens!
We LOVED MMRR! I had purposely avoided spoilers so I had no idea what to expect. It was so cute and fun!
From there we headed to Toy Story Land, my favorite land of all the lands. Sadly, Slinky Dog Dash was down with no clue when it would be up. So we quickly decided to go to Toy Story Mania where I took this high-quality photo. It's blurry because the line was moving so fast!
Slinky Dog was still down so we didn't know what to do next...wait it out (with lots of others at this point) or head to Galaxy's Edge even though we wouldn't be doing Rise until after lunch (based on how I assumed the boarding groups would go.) As we talked about it we realized we had nearly walked our way to GE so we should just explore it.
I am KICKING myself because I didn't get this picture while it was EMPTY! What a sight to behold! We were sort of in awe of the whole thing. So while I didn't get a picture then, it was a good memory. Later I snapped this one...
We headed to Smugglers Run and practically walked on. The timestamp says 9:55. (Park opening was 10)
Everyone enjoyed Smugglers Run, even though Scarlett and I hadn't a clue what we were supposed to be doing or what was going on. Oh well, it sure looked cool!
We headed back to Toy Story Land to try to hit Slinky again...this time it was a LONG wait. So we snapped some photos and made our way to the other side of the park.
I made these ears in 2018 and I was quite proud of them. So while they don't love wearing them, they at least indulged me for a photo like they did a couple of years ago...
This shirt fits me to a tee. Hehehehe.
See the next post for more!
I had been reading up on how to attain a RISE boarding pass for about a month and knew this day would be a little stressful. I showed Jason how to do it while we were having dinner the night before thinking the more of us that could try, the better. On our HS day, I woke up with plenty of time (thanks to nerves) and Lilli woke up as well (she was so excited, she is a total Star Wars fan now after our binge movie week) in order to get situated. Lilli pulled up the time.gov on her phone and we were on the room wifi which had proved to be stronger than not. Jason heard us bustling and woke up and pulled it up on his phone to try. But I KNEW I would be the one to get it, I had been practicing for weeks! My fingers were so shaky but I was READY!
Well, wouldn't you know it, that little beat me to it!! Jason got the boarding pass! I think he got 62 or something, but we didn't care. We were on such an adrenaline kick and celebrated so much we woke up Scar! We ate some muffins and fruit in the room while we got ready. I wanted to take my time but I was just so excited to get to HS and get in line for Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway since we hadn't seen it before. So we left the room around 8.
Yall! I love staying at Boardwalk. Being able to walk by the water into the park, not mess with busses or Uber, what a breeze. We were in the first 20 or so people waiting before security would take us closer to the entrance. I know we made the short walk around 8 and waited in line outside of the entrance for about an hour. But it was ok because we were already awake and PUMPED for our day. We played Disney Heads Up on our phones and just laughed and had a good time.
The time stamp on this picture is 9:15 and you can see we are about the 5th family in the park!
EMPTY
Quite the change from when we rope dropped HS back a few years ago! This is when I learned that rope dropping is the absolute way to go! You get to ride so much more each day. We haven't gone back to our old sleeping-in ways yet. We do try to take a day off and spend it at the resort/pool, but if we are going to a park we are getting there an hour before it opens!
We LOVED MMRR! I had purposely avoided spoilers so I had no idea what to expect. It was so cute and fun!
From there we headed to Toy Story Land, my favorite land of all the lands. Sadly, Slinky Dog Dash was down with no clue when it would be up. So we quickly decided to go to Toy Story Mania where I took this high-quality photo. It's blurry because the line was moving so fast!
Slinky Dog was still down so we didn't know what to do next...wait it out (with lots of others at this point) or head to Galaxy's Edge even though we wouldn't be doing Rise until after lunch (based on how I assumed the boarding groups would go.) As we talked about it we realized we had nearly walked our way to GE so we should just explore it.
I am KICKING myself because I didn't get this picture while it was EMPTY! What a sight to behold! We were sort of in awe of the whole thing. So while I didn't get a picture then, it was a good memory. Later I snapped this one...
We headed to Smugglers Run and practically walked on. The timestamp says 9:55. (Park opening was 10)
Everyone enjoyed Smugglers Run, even though Scarlett and I hadn't a clue what we were supposed to be doing or what was going on. Oh well, it sure looked cool!
We headed back to Toy Story Land to try to hit Slinky again...this time it was a LONG wait. So we snapped some photos and made our way to the other side of the park.
I made these ears in 2018 and I was quite proud of them. So while they don't love wearing them, they at least indulged me for a photo like they did a couple of years ago...
This shirt fits me to a tee. Hehehehe.
See the next post for more!
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