After lunch we watched Lights! Motors! Action! for Alex's benefit. I enjoyed the sitting down process.
Afterwards I really wanted to ride Tower of Terror as it's my favorite ride in all of WDW. Alex is just not having it at all so he decided to go to Walt Disney: One Man's Dream. We had looked at it briefly during our last trip, but he wanted to be able to spend a little bit more time there. So we split up.
I do specifically remember that I had a Fastpass for ToT but when I got there the wait time was posted at 13 minutes so I figured I'd have plenty of time to go through the regular line, ride, go through the FP line, ride again, and then meet Alex so we could get ready for Fantasmic!
I went to get into the regular line and was handed the Important Red Plastic Card of Responsibility on my way through. No problem, I know what's going on. I marched my happy behind up to the end of the line, about halfway through the garden area (not fully open or anything, but the typical queue when it's not super crazy busy)...and then stopped. And waited.
Now I've been to WDW 11 times and I did a College Program Internship in 2004 at DHS (when it was still Disney MGM Studios) and ToT is my favorite ride. When I say I've been on this ride over 100 times, I'm not exaggerating. There was no way this was going to be only a 13 minute wait. I don't know if the wait time sign was wrong or if something had happened upstream, but we weren't moving and I had a Fastpass.
So I made myself look like a total nerd while I walked out of line, returned my Important Red Plastic Card of Responsibility, and hopped in the Fastpass line.
Yay! Library, boiler room, elevator, twilight zone, up, down, up, down, whee!
I love that stuff!
Grabbed myself a yummy strawberry slush at the little cart just outside of the ToT dump shop and enjoyed Sunset Boulevard until Alex was able to meet me.
This was his WD: OMD photographic contribution.
We quickly jumped in the queue for Fantasmic! No line to speak of, just the walk back to the amphitheater. Settled into some decent seats, bought some popcorn and bottled water and tried to make the most of the truly terrible (sorry, but, they just were) pre-show entertainment CMs. We did chat with a few of the families around us including some 20 something couples with Harry Potter themed t-shirts that had their respective Hogwarts houses. Ravenclaw represent!
We also talked to a family with two young girls who were also from North Carolina. Alex and I always seem to confuse other people from North Carolina because neither of us have accents. My father was in the military until I was 12 so we didn't move to the Charlotte area until that time and I flat out refused to take on a southern accent. Alex is from southern Virginia but he just never took to it, I guess. I does come out when he drinks, though. We had been together months before I heard him say "nekkid" and I lost it. Anyway...
Before the show started the pre-show entertainment CMs pulled up a couple that was celebrating their fourth anniversary. I got all excited thinking that I was going to see a proposal because I got to see one before a showing of Beauty and the Beast back when Four For a Dollar used to perform. Alex pointed out that they were probably celebrating their four year wedding anniversary because not many couples date for four years without getting married. So I smacked him on the arm and said, "We've been dating three years and six months!" and he said, "I'm just not ready yet!" *sigh*
We have no pictures of Fantasmic! because Alex had never seen it before and I just wanted him to enjoy it.
And so he did and we left the park afterwards and went back to CBR at which point we decided we couldn't eat at Old Port Royale any more!
We *gasp* headed off property to Uno Pizza at Crossroads for some food.
Once we came back Alex wanted to go in the pool again but I really wasn't feeling the whole, change into your suit, change back, wet hair, blah, blah, blah, hassle. So Alex swam and I sat in a deck chair by the pool and updated my mom on our trip as this is only the second WDW trip I've ever taken without her and she was pretty jealous.
And then we passed out. Once we got back to our room, of course.