Disney Day One
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przedWe had a bit of a bumpy start to our Disney vacation. We were taking the latest flight out of Toronto because we're travelling with the Sweetie's sister and her daughter and they were coming out from Vancouver. We were supposed to land at 11:30 p.m., which I'd reckoned would get us to the resort around 1. But then our flight was delayed, and our luggage took forever in Orlando, and we had to wait for more people to fill up the Disney bus, and the one bloke working the night shift on the reservation desk was lovely but Oh. So. Slow. By the time we got to our rooms, Ros was comatose and it was 3 a.m. Yikes!
Needless to say, we all slept in until 10, but then we managed to get to the Magic Kingdom for our first FastPass ride, the Tomorrowland Speedway. (Everybody gets three FastPasses a day that allow you to skip the lineup for a ride. This is a Good Thing.) The ride consists of little diesel race cars with a working steering wheel and gas pedal. I worked the gas and Ros steered. Two years ago, she constantly hit the metal guide that keeps the cars on the tracks. This year she managed to keep it straight for whole seconds at a time!
Then we waited in the normal line for the Barnstormer, a kids coaster that was fun, but incredibly short considering the 40 minute line up. Then it was a FastPass for the Flying Dumbos, which is adorably lame and still fun.
Ros and her cousin staged a mutiny and decided they didn't want to do Enchanted Tales with Belle, so we switched last minute to Aladdin's Magic Carpets, which is basically the Dumbo ride with carpets instead of elephants. Here's Ros giving a thumbs up for the carpets.
Then we headed back to our resort so we could take the boat to Downtown Disney, where we had tickets to Cirque du Soleil.
The Cirque show was as awesome as they always are. The clowns were fun, the trampolinists were amazing, and the trapeze artists were stunning. Of special interests to me was the chiselled, shirtless bloke who did the aerial silk routine. Let's just say he was very buff, and very, very good at what he did. He had this one bit where he was flying around the stage with the silk billowing behind him like wings, which was as visually stunning as he was. (He got an enthusiastic ovation at the end, and a few whoops from the appreciative women in the audience. I may have been one of those women. *g*)
We ended the evening with a relaxing swim in the resort pool under the moon and stars. Which was fantastic.
We're trying for a very early start tomorrow. I have a mad scheme to do something Ros has requested that wasn't in our original plans. I shall report back if it worked.
Needless to say, we all slept in until 10, but then we managed to get to the Magic Kingdom for our first FastPass ride, the Tomorrowland Speedway. (Everybody gets three FastPasses a day that allow you to skip the lineup for a ride. This is a Good Thing.) The ride consists of little diesel race cars with a working steering wheel and gas pedal. I worked the gas and Ros steered. Two years ago, she constantly hit the metal guide that keeps the cars on the tracks. This year she managed to keep it straight for whole seconds at a time!
Then we waited in the normal line for the Barnstormer, a kids coaster that was fun, but incredibly short considering the 40 minute line up. Then it was a FastPass for the Flying Dumbos, which is adorably lame and still fun.
Ros and her cousin staged a mutiny and decided they didn't want to do Enchanted Tales with Belle, so we switched last minute to Aladdin's Magic Carpets, which is basically the Dumbo ride with carpets instead of elephants. Here's Ros giving a thumbs up for the carpets.
Then we headed back to our resort so we could take the boat to Downtown Disney, where we had tickets to Cirque du Soleil.
The Cirque show was as awesome as they always are. The clowns were fun, the trampolinists were amazing, and the trapeze artists were stunning. Of special interests to me was the chiselled, shirtless bloke who did the aerial silk routine. Let's just say he was very buff, and very, very good at what he did. He had this one bit where he was flying around the stage with the silk billowing behind him like wings, which was as visually stunning as he was. (He got an enthusiastic ovation at the end, and a few whoops from the appreciative women in the audience. I may have been one of those women. *g*)
We ended the evening with a relaxing swim in the resort pool under the moon and stars. Which was fantastic.
We're trying for a very early start tomorrow. I have a mad scheme to do something Ros has requested that wasn't in our original plans. I shall report back if it worked.
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Date: 2014-05-10 12:14 pm (UTC)Yay for surviving the trip, which sounds horribly grueling. Yay for FastPass! Yay for flexibility! I do hope your mad scheme, whatever it is, works out! Enjoy yourselves!
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Date: 2014-05-12 03:00 am (UTC)You and I are of the same mind with regards to Disney. (I grew up loving Disney, but then did a research project in film school on their business practices. Yikes!) But I have to say, they know how to run theme parks and resorts, and for the second time running we've had a wonderful time here.
I think Cirque run the same show here continuously, so I wouldn't doubt you've seen the same aerial silk act, if not the same guy.
And as you've seen, the mad scheme worked out!