Hello all!
So I'm back from great trip! I still need to go over the pictures (took over 1000 pictures :shock: ) and I'll post some of them later... In the meantime here's a quick summary!
We left Saturday and spent the afternoon in Val D'Europe doing some shopping, before heading for dinner in the Disney Village and the Steakhouse. Dinner was yummy (I had the burger, it was delicious, and the bailey's creme brulée for dessert was as good as it sounds). We had a quick stop in the new Starbucks (it was its first day), it was quite packed, and looking great :) .
Sunday morning we were back and checking in at the Newport Bay around 8am... After a lovely latte in Starbucks, we headed for the park... As we always do during the EMH, we headed straight for Buzz Lightyear (where too many of the lasers didn't seem to be working right, once mine didn't even light up :evil: ... they should really check them out more regularly!!!). We had a few goes on Buzz, then continued with Space Mountain, before heading towards Fantasyland.
When the park opened, POTC was the first stop. It was looking brilliant. In fact, POTC was probably the ride we did more often :) , almost all the time you could walk straight on it, so we ended up doing four or five times each day.... The octopus at the beginning (the one in the ship, just when you go past the Blue Lagoon) was missing, but everything else seem to be working great (or better than other times...) The dueling pirates looked OK, but it looks strange without the sword noise. The one thing that was working just great were the water effects... I came out with a wet bottom quite a few times!! (may explain why I ended up getting ill, but more of that later)
Another ride we managed to do several times (also because short queues) was Phantom Manor. That too was looking great. For some reason Tuesday morning it opened late (and there was a huge crowd waiting outside the gates), and by the time it opened it had a 30 minute line, so we had to give up on it on our last day. But Sunday and Monday it was around the 5 minutes wait, so we simply HAD to do it :wink: .... The one area that needs a bit of maintenance is Boot Hill, the plants are so grown that some of the tombs you could hardly read.
Thanks to the fastpass, we did Big Thunder Mountain a few times. The normal lines were between 45-60 minutes (Sunday evening it was down to 15 minutes which turned out to be more like 5, which was great). BTM was definitely the ride I enjoyed the most during this visit. Everything was looking and working beautifully, including the waterfall at the beginning, and it was really exhilarating!! Love it love love love it =D> =D> It did however break down Monday night, we saw some people stuck there for at least 15 minutes (a bit annoying since we had fastpasses for it, but we gave up on them and went to Pirates instead, ended up doing them twice in a row)
As you may know I usually wear glasses, and I take them off in Space Mountain (and RNRC) to be safe... So I had never actually seen much inside those rides. Well this weekend I was trying on some contacts (on Monday), and for the first time I could ride them both and see!! And it was like doing them for the first time!! SM I loved. The first time I did it with the contacts we were seating in the first row of the first train, it was like we were alone in there, and it was incredible!! I had never seen all the stars :shock: Really beautiful. Then in WDS and RNRC, similar tale, only there I could see the tracks a bit better, all the lights (not sure there was much smoke though), and it was more fun (and less terrifying) than ever before!
Something else I really enjoyed was the Party Time show. I wasn't expecting much, I confess, but I was pleasantly surprised!! We saw it twice, first on the Sunday, then again on Monday (this time I also filmed it). It was good!! Fun, and full of energy!! Really enjoyed it =D>
Monday we also went to see the Stars 'n' Cars, frankly that was a bit more disappointing. We got a spot in front of the stage. The stage show was OK, but you really need to choose what you want to see. Either you see some cars arriving, or the other cars arriving, or the characters, or the show. But you can't have it all. Also here I did something stupid :oops: ... I was filming the show, or so I thought, when suddenly towards the end of the Pretty Woman song I realised that at some point I had pressed the pause button and forgotten to put it to record again ](*,) so I only have part of the show on film ](*,) ](*,) Definitely not a highlight!!
Another low was lunch at the Restaurant des Stars. We went there when Remy was supposed to come out (14:15 to 14:45 the program said), we were there from 14:00 to 15:00 and no Remy :( The food was OK, but the place was very noisy, and some parents were letting their kids run wild in the middle of the restaurant which made it worse :evil:
Tuesday morning I woke up feeling ill :( I had had a cold the week before, which now was coming back, and it was feeling worse and worse as the day progressed. So we ended up leaving a bit earlier than planned on Tuesday (and as a result missed the OUAD parade). I was rather sad to leave, but I guess I would have been sad also if we'd left a few hours later. But we thought it would be better to leave on a high note (ie just after one last go on BTM) than later when I would be feeling really bad.
Overall it was a great trip :D . The crowds were a lot worse that I was expecting, to be honest. Sunday was probably the best day, Monday and Tuesday it was quite packed!! I guess the Italians and the Spanish already have their school holidays (their numbers were higher than usual), but with the fastpasses, and the EMH, and a bit of tactics, we didn't actually do any long queues (longest was 25 minutes for TOT), so it wasn't too bad. And the weather was gorgeous 8) , which is always appreciated!!
I will post some pictures later... Thank you for reading!! :)
Great trip report so far. I can't wait to see some pictures. I'm sorry that you got ill.
Is Space Mountain still very bumpy?
Thanks Dagobert!
We did SM 4 or 5 times in the three days we were there, and to be honest it never felt too bad!! Not as smooth as RNRC, of course, but better than other times definitely!! (although every time we were in the front of the train, with more leg room, which probably helped...)
Some pics:
The Newport Bay is not getting any smaller (especially if you get a room which is like 10 minutes away from the reception :roll:) but looks beautiful.
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In October we'll be staying here though:
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Around the lake
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Best way to start the day!!
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Off to Discoveryland!
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And to Fantasyland.. First stop the Castle
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Wasn't spinning quite that fast...
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Happy me!
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I love this bit of Fantasyland. And it's always nice and quiet!
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I never noticed the pumpkin in the gates before:
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My dear hubby (notice the great t-shirt :) )
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Cinderella's sabots (clogs is it, in English?)
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once again amazing photos! I have never noticed the clogs where are they?
Hope you enjoyed NPBC, I cant wait to go :D/
Thanks for sharing your great trip report and your fantastic photos, I especially love the Lake Disney and the first Space Mountain ones =D>
I'm glad that you had a great time, despite being ill towards the end as well :)
Quote from: "Clarebelle"once again amazing photos! I have never noticed the clogs where are they?
Hope you enjoyed NPBC, I cant wait to go :D/
The clogs are in the courtyard with the carriage, they're on a wall to your left as you leave it. You're going to have to go back to see them :wink: !
The NPBC was great, but we were a bit too far away from the reception area... We had to go past the pool and all. Still, room was lovely, and dinner in the Yacht Club was very nice!
Quote from: "The Butlin Boy"Thanks for sharing your great trip report and your fantastic photos, I especially love the Lake Disney and the first Space Mountain ones =D>
I'm glad that you had a great time, despite being ill towards the end as well :)
Thanks :D
Around Phantom Manor:
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Best view of BTM is from PM...
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Hidden Mickey in PM
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And around Boot Hill:
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Slightly overgrown plants...
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And the views from Boot Hill
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Really like this one:
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There's someone there...
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Aboard the Molly Brown
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Not an animatronic....
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And in the fastpass line for BTM (first ride of the trip :D )
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We left Saturday and spent the afternoon in Val D'Europe doing some shopping, before heading for dinner in the Disney Village and the Steakhouse. Dinner was yummy (I had the burger, it was delicious, and the bailey's creme brulée for dessert was as good as it sounds).
The creme brulee is indeed yummy
Thanks for sharing your break with us :)
Epcot_Boy :ears:
Hey
sounds like you had a great time (appart from feeling unwell near the end). Your photos are also great!! Hehe you got one of the Stork, I remember seeing him the first time I was on the Molly Brown and I couldn't work out if he was real or not because he was standing pretty still hehe :lol:
thanks for sharing!! :D/
glad you had a good time, i just got back a couple of hours ago, from what has been one of my worst trips in years ( I am writing to complain (not about the queues) - we arrived the day you left ), the queues were awful - 120 mins seen most of the day today on BTM and 90 mins on SMM2 when it was working.
We had a lovely coffee caramel frappucino in starbucks and like you were impressed. Phantom manor was great and im glad you noticed all the floral growth in boot hill too :-)
Im glad you had great weather as it helps make the trip , and I was pleasantly surprised with Mickeys show, I really loked it. Did you watch Stitch in DISCOveryland, i will be interested to see what you thought if you did. Great pics too.
Thank you all :D
Quote from: "smurfy74"glad you had a good time, i just got back a couple of hours ago, from what has been one of my worst trips in years ( I am writing to complain (not about the queues) - we arrived the day you left ), the queues were awful - 120 mins seen most of the day today on BTM and 90 mins on SMM2 when it was working.
We had a lovely coffee caramel frappucino in starbucks and like you were impressed. Phantom manor was great and im glad you noticed all the floral growth in boot hill too :-)
Im glad you had great weather as it helps make the trip , and I was pleasantly surprised with Mickeys show, I really loked it. Did you watch Stitch in DISCOveryland, i will be interested to see what you thought if you did. Great pics too.
Sorry to hear you had a bad trip :( , what happened? And sorry to hear the queues got even worse :shock:
We didn't actually catch the Stitch show this time (we were going to on our last day but we ended up leaving early, so we missed it) I had seen it in May, though, and I was also impressed with it :) ! Not sure Stitch added much to it, really, the show would have been good without him there, but the dancers were very good, and I thought the show had a lot of energy. But now having seen both, I prefer the Mickey one...
I'm working on the next set of pics, will upload them soon!
After Frontierland, Adventureland... It was looking really good. Very green, very lush, and at one point some slightly grey clowds gave it all a very dramatic look... I really love this part of Disneyland. And it's usually the quietest :wink:
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Someone has lost their head... (or maybe I should say skull....)
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The POTC side entrance to Adventure Isle was closed
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And yes, it's still ripped (but my husband thought it was meant to look like that, make it more atmospheric or something, so maybe most people don't notice...)
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Thanks for sharing even more of your amazing photos, the Adventurland ones are fantastic :mrgreen:
Shame about the POTC sail though :roll:
Great trip report, I am glad you had such a good time.
Thanks TBB and davewasbaloo!
I wonder when they'll fix that sail, it's been like that for months and months now!!!
Here's another set of pics. After POTC, we had a walk around Fantasyland (but queues everywhere, even to go into the labyrinth!)
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Very confused weathervane
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This guy was coming out, but there was no steam from the teapot
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And the Old Mill was working! This was the first time I have seen the mill turning!!
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You can see the Hidden Mickey in SM from Fantasyland very well:
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We took the train in the Fantasyland station (not only was there almost no queue here, but the train came empty!!) and headed to Main Street, just in time for Minnie's train:
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I have to say, Minnie's voice does get pretty annoying after a while...
Quick look around Kitty Hawk's Bicycle Shop (named after the shop where the Wright Brothers invented the plane)
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I had never noticed the sign before. It's all these little details that I really love about DLP...
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And quick look around the Emporium. My favourite glass ceiling
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It was almost time for the Mickey's Party Time show, so we headed towards the Castle. Despite the decorations, it's still the most beautiful castle ever... and with the flowers it looks even better!
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Thanks for the report never2old. You've taken some lovely pictures! :)
Nice to see things around the park being better maintained. The labyrinth looks great, as do the flowers on the castle! The tear in the Pirates sail probably won't be fixed for a while, I guess they'll have to make a whole new sail for it. But it almost looks like it supposed to be like that, so it's not too bad!!
I'd also like to thank you for confirming that the old mill wings are turning again! It's certainly been a while since we've seen that. :D/
Thanks :)
It was really a surprise to see the Old Mill working, I really hope they keep bringing all these effects back (though on Tuesday it seemed to have stopped again :roll: ).
Another set of pictures. It's Party Time!!
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A great report and some amazing photos as usual!
Thanks for sharing it and I too am really excited to hear that the Old Mill was working - great with all these details working again, hopefully the will fix the POTC sail sooner or later.
Thanks Nicolai :D
I'll try to finish the first day in one more post...
After Party Time, we went for lunch in Walt's (it was going to be closed Monday and Tuesday, so didn't want to miss our chance). It was surprisingly quiet (and almost empty by the time we left it) We were seated in the Fantasyland area, my first time there :D
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After lunch we decided to go back to the hotel and get our room (and avoid having to queue for it in the evening)
On the way to the Newport Bay:
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And after getting the room and a little rest, waiting for the bus
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We went for a look around WDS
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And headed straight for ToT. It was getting close to closing time, so queues were not too bad. I think we had about 20 minutes. All worth it of course!! It felt like AGES since I'd done ToT (hadn't been on it on my last two visits), and it's such a brilliant ride!!
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And back to Disneyland... It was getting darker, so we took some pictures (notice the torches were working in Adventureland and Frontierland), did POTC, PM and BTM, before it was time to leave for the night....
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Love the light in this picture:
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And on this one
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Frontierland
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Magical
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And that was our first day!! We got some sandwhiches from Starbucks (and a cake from Main Street) and had dinner in the room, before collapsing and sleeping very well indeed!!
I am really loving looking at your photos N2O, I cannot wait to see the rest of them :)
I'm glad you had a great trip :P
Again, great pictures!! It looks like you had a lot of fun, dispite getting ill!!
Thanks guys :D And to be honest, I'm really glad I didn't get more ill while we were there - I've been off sick since we came back, and though I am feeling better my throat is still very painful... So it's good that the cold only appeared at the end, and not sooner...
Second day in pics!!
We got to the park around 8:30, went straight to Peter Pan and had a couple of goes there (it was really wonderful, it wasn't going too fast, I could see a few cars moving in London( (though I think there were more before, but anyway), and at that time it was empty, so we could go in twice without any queuing.
Fantasyland was looking gorgeous Monday morning:
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Cinderella's fountain was working:
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And not everyone dislikes the Mickeys on the Castle:
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After that, we headed to Discoveryland, for a couple of goes in Buzz (but the queues were starting to form here, second time we had about 10 minutes wait) and then Space Mountain. As I said, it was my first time with contacts in it, and whoa!! First time I could see what's in there... Loved it. Plus we were in the first row of the train, even better!!
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When the park opened, we headed straight for POTC (I really lost count of how many times we did it), enjoyed the greenery and calm of Adventureland, and headed towards Frontierland for some BTM fastpasses and a visit to PM
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Never noticed this sign before
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Heading out towards WDS via the Liberty Arcade, wondered how this happened....
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In the Studios the queues were building up. We managed to go on ToT (25 minutes wait). The Rose Garden was looking particularly beautiful:
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Then off to Animagique
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Hidden Mickeys in Animagique
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After a rather dissapointing lunch in the Restaurant des Stars (no Remy, and too noisy), we headed back towards DLP, got fastpasses for BTM (19:30), watched the OUADP (but not fully, thinking that we would see it properly on Tuesday before leaving), had a look in the Main Street shops before going back to WDS.
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Next part coming up soon!
And the last part of Monday's pics
Back to WDS, noticed some more Hidden Mickeys
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The queues in TOT were bad again (about 30 minutes) but RNRC was saying 10 minutes... So no excuses!
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Very fast, very exhilarating, though not too smokey... Still, very enjoyable. This is the ride that scares me the most, I confess, but I think I'm starting to get over it, and to really enjoy it...
After a walk around the Studios we headed for a drink in La Terrase, before getting our places for the Stars 'n' Cars.
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We got there about 18h, 30 minutes before the start, and got places in front of the stage. Of course by the time the show started quite a few parents had pushed their kids in front of us (and not always asking nicely :roll: ).
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By the way, my husband took these pictures, I was busy with the video camera pretending to film the show (but forgetting to press the Record button until halfway in... ](*,) )
After the show we headed back to DLP intending to use our fastpasses in BTM, but the trains were stopped... We went into Phantom Manor to make some time, but when we got out the trains were still stopped (there were some CM by a train talking with the people there, but no evacuation going on yet), it was almost 20:00, so we decided to forget about our fastpasses and went for POTC, which was empty and we could do twice in a row (didn't even need to leave our boat :) ).
That evening we had dinner in the Yacht Club, it was very yummy (although the salmon I had was on the slightly dry side). The restaurant was on the busy (and noisy) side overall, but we were sitting in a quieter area so it was quite pleasant... Though we could hear a few tables away from us, a kid was watching a portable DVD player without any headphones or anything :roll: , I'm sorry but I find it very rude first to make your kid watch a movie while you're eating in a restaurant, but then to just let him watch it like that, with no headphones, playing loudly??? I find that very inconsiderate for everyone around you.
But anyway, some rude people aside, the meal was very pleasant, and again after an exhausting day (and the very very long walk back to your room) we slept very well indeed...
Last day coming up soon!
Quote from: "never2old"Fantasyland was looking gorgeous Monday morning:
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Oh wow! Your photos are so beautiful N20, thank you so much for posting them :)
Thanks Butlin Boy :oops:
wow even more fantastic photos! I love the flowers on the castle or shubbery lol.
may I ask what camera you use?? I am majorly impressed with your photosof MMP and stars n' cars! =D> =D> =D>
Quote from: "Aveen2008"wow even more fantastic photos! I love the flowers on the castle or shubbery lol.
may I ask what camera you use?? I am majorly impressed with your photosof MMP and stars n' cars! =D> =D> =D>
Thanks Aveen :D
We have three cameras... :roll:
The MMP ones were taken with a Canon (EOS 450D, it was my birthday present :) ). The Stars 'n' Cars were my husbands', he uses a Kodak one (Z710), and finally I also have a compact one, an Olympus 1030SW (most of the pictures from Monday are from this camera)...
wow 3 cameras! hehe you are busy! :P
thanks for letting me know hehe!
Great pictures again. :D
Wow!!! Your photographs are amazing! I love getting to see them :mrgreen:
Thank you so much for posting these!
Makes me so jealous and really want to go back :lol:
Some very nice updates here and again, as everybody else says too, lovely lovely pictures! =D>
wonderful pictures! I love the way the morning sunlight enlightens the park! it makes it look so new!
and those flowers are amazing! we have only been in early spring or in fall, so never seen the gardens in such full bloom, but it looks just wonderful!
thank you for your report; I can't wait to read the rest of it!
glad, you had such a good time there, despite you getting ill in the end (and despite those rude people / parents...)!
Thank you all very much for your comments :D And it's a real pleasure to share it all with you, part of the magic of Disney is to be able to share it :D
Here's Tuesday!
After check out, we headed towards the park for the EMH. The Village was fairly quiet
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Again we had a first go in Buzz and Space Mountain (best way to start the day :wink: ) before going to Fantasyland for a couple of goes in Peter Pan. By then the park was starting to really fill up. We had a walk around Fantasyland and Discoveryland (and despite it being not 10am yet the queues in Discoveryland were becoming too much - 30 minutes in Buzz :shock: ), so we gave up on rides and took some pictures instead, waiting for 10am and the rest of the rides to open
The Italian area of Fantasyland:
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Discoveryland
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Big Hyperion
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And small Hyperion
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Next part (and probably last) coming soon! :)
And final part!!
Main Street, shortly before 10am... We knew then that this was not going to be a quiet day!
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Around the Castle
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The entrance to Adventureland. We headed to POTC, but it was closed, and they couldn't tell us when it would open... :(
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Frontierland. We got some fastpasses for BTM, tried PM (but it was closed as well :( ). So we made some time around Frontierland before using four FP, then headed back to Fantasyland
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Outside Peter Pan
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The Sleeping Beauty show was just starting. I had never seen it before, it was not bad! Although they shorten the story quite a bit...
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A final look around Fantasyland
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Another thing I never noticed before... the apples in the lamp
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By now I was feeling really bad, so we decided to give up on our plans for the rest of the day (which included a trip to the Studios for TOT and RNRC, lunch in the Plaza Gardens and watching the OUAD parade), and instead have a quick lunch in the Village (yep, in Starbucks of course, lovely frapuccino with a chicken wrap and a white chocolate cheesecake...) and go home after that.
So we had one last go in BTM
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said our goodbyes to Frontierland
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and headed out...
A bit sad to leave earlier than we had planned, but still, we'd had a great stay (despite the ever growing crowds), so we couldn't really complain :D
Of course, now I'm starting to count the days until our next trip... :wink:
Thank you all for reading :D
And just as expected your final update didn't disappoint! Great little comments and lovely pictures - just lovely! =D>
I'm sorry to hear that your last day came to an abrupt end, but then it was great to see what a lovely trip you had had until then :D/
Thanks Nicolai :D
Great final installment! :mrgreen: :D/ :mrgreen:
I'm sorry it ended before you planned though.
Ooo how I wish I was going to DLP this year :lol:
Thank you for posting your final photos N2O, they are a pleasure to look at. I'm glad you had a great time :)
Your pictures are really great, that must be one expensive camera you've got! :P
Thank you all very much for your comments, really glad you enjoyed the report and the pictures!!
One last picture; a colleague from work was there at the same time, so of course we kept running into each other (he's also a Disney fan, and he's already planning a trip for August. I do have some wonderful colleagues :) ) He took this picture from us in Adventure Isle (I had just made my hubby sit down in the tipping rock, he didn't know it moved, you should have seen his face when he sat down and the rock went down with him :lol: ) Anyway, here we are:
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The smiles in our faces say it all :D
My Party Time videos are now in youtube, in glorious HD (first videos I upload in HD :D)
Here they are:
[youtube:2z8c2s61]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uduy2dwJrTg[/youtube:2z8c2s61]
[youtube:2z8c2s61]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGKFBioo3zw[/youtube:2z8c2s61]
[youtube:2z8c2s61]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ficNCgW9j_Y[/youtube:2z8c2s61]
Enjoy!