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- Oct 20, 2011
Alright. My beast is napping. I have completed my exercise for the day. I think I can sneak in a little trip reporting before he wakes up. I bring you back. Back to the hour of 11:00am. It was this hour where we realized not only were we trying to complete this crazy task, but that we were having an absolute blast doing it. We really felt like we were on our own little episode of the Amazing Race. We were having fun and working together well as a team. After finishing up Storybook Circus our Fastpass for Space Mountain was ready to be used. Standby time listed 50 minutes, we were in and out of the ride in 14. Being a Disney vet I knew just where to take the picture:
It was a terrifying shot though because it was so bouncy I though for sure I was going to drop my phone. After a quick game of skeeball in the arcade we were off to find our Main Street Vehicle. Skipping down Main Street and into Town Square what do we see, but another rain shower of pixie dust everywhere. Just outside the firestation was a double decker bus!!!!! We rush over and ask to get on and just our luck it is another promotional vehicle. With no cameras!!! They claim they are filming something and we can't get on. Apparently they only film things with hidden cameras. So we inquire where to find the horse and carriage stop, and manage to find this sign across the street from the train station:
Looking back at this picture turns out it wasn't a carriage or a trolley, but a streetcar. Whoops!
We arrived at this sign at 11:36. The carriage arrived right on time at 11:55. Yup we just stood there wasting time for 19 minutes! Big mistake. We were worried that a line would form, or that we would miss the carriage if we left. For those attempting this challenge in the future, there is no need to wait for this carriage. It is very timely, and nobody forms a line for it. We really should have used that wait time for meeting Mickey or playing some Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom, but we decided to save that little piece of torture for later.
Here we are with the horse butt in the background.
I felt truly bad for this horse. He was pulling a rather heavy looking trolley in extremely hot and humid weather. And he was covered in fur. I was not covered in fur and was not pulling a large trolley and was beginning to have hallucinations involving Mickey bars. Now as much as I felt bad for the horse, I felt 10 times worse for the Grandpa that just got completely abandoned in Town Square. This kid, about 10-12 years old with some insane mission to ride every attraction in the Magic Kingdom during his vacation (who would do that? ), was so out of his mind excited to finally get on a Main Street Vehicle, that he ran up and boarded it, followed very closely by his Mom, Dad and Grandma. They all sat happily for about 30 seconds until they realized, 'Hey wait, we have Grandpa with us in a ECV, and he can't join us, and we have no idea where this vehicle is going' Grandpa is parked and sitting on his ECV way over by the train station looking incredibly sad and pathetic, and half the family is shouting "Stay there, we'll come back" while simultaneously the other half is screaming " MEET US BY THE CASTLE!". We all know how 'meet us by the castle' is going to turn out. Sigh. I hope they found poor Grandpa. So folks, my advice, make plans on what to do with your ECV travel companions BEFORE you board a ride they can't go on.
By the time we detrollied (if you can deplane surely you can detrolly) it was 12:01. Time to start are manic criss-crossing of the park.
Progress So Far:
It was a terrifying shot though because it was so bouncy I though for sure I was going to drop my phone. After a quick game of skeeball in the arcade we were off to find our Main Street Vehicle. Skipping down Main Street and into Town Square what do we see, but another rain shower of pixie dust everywhere. Just outside the firestation was a double decker bus!!!!! We rush over and ask to get on and just our luck it is another promotional vehicle. With no cameras!!! They claim they are filming something and we can't get on. Apparently they only film things with hidden cameras. So we inquire where to find the horse and carriage stop, and manage to find this sign across the street from the train station:
Looking back at this picture turns out it wasn't a carriage or a trolley, but a streetcar. Whoops!
We arrived at this sign at 11:36. The carriage arrived right on time at 11:55. Yup we just stood there wasting time for 19 minutes! Big mistake. We were worried that a line would form, or that we would miss the carriage if we left. For those attempting this challenge in the future, there is no need to wait for this carriage. It is very timely, and nobody forms a line for it. We really should have used that wait time for meeting Mickey or playing some Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom, but we decided to save that little piece of torture for later.
Here we are with the horse butt in the background.
I felt truly bad for this horse. He was pulling a rather heavy looking trolley in extremely hot and humid weather. And he was covered in fur. I was not covered in fur and was not pulling a large trolley and was beginning to have hallucinations involving Mickey bars. Now as much as I felt bad for the horse, I felt 10 times worse for the Grandpa that just got completely abandoned in Town Square. This kid, about 10-12 years old with some insane mission to ride every attraction in the Magic Kingdom during his vacation (who would do that? ), was so out of his mind excited to finally get on a Main Street Vehicle, that he ran up and boarded it, followed very closely by his Mom, Dad and Grandma. They all sat happily for about 30 seconds until they realized, 'Hey wait, we have Grandpa with us in a ECV, and he can't join us, and we have no idea where this vehicle is going' Grandpa is parked and sitting on his ECV way over by the train station looking incredibly sad and pathetic, and half the family is shouting "Stay there, we'll come back" while simultaneously the other half is screaming " MEET US BY THE CASTLE!". We all know how 'meet us by the castle' is going to turn out. Sigh. I hope they found poor Grandpa. So folks, my advice, make plans on what to do with your ECV travel companions BEFORE you board a ride they can't go on.
By the time we detrollied (if you can deplane surely you can detrolly) it was 12:01. Time to start are manic criss-crossing of the park.
Progress So Far:
- Core Attractions: 13/53
- Bonus Attractions: 1/24
- Time Remaining: 11 hours