So here is how you do Disney in a day. 3 parks in 1 day!!! It was insane, we spent 16 hours at the parks, but it was time well spent for my girlfriend and me. She had never been to Disney so we planned her entire day off to accommodate that. I have to say thanks to Omar who gave me the tickets and put us up for 2 nights and to JLove who gave us endless tips of how to “avoid the crowds”.
We left Ft. Lauderdale at 10:30 pm after her show on Sunday and drove the 2 and half hours to Omar’s house. We finally got to bed at 2:30 AM!!!
We woke up and headed off to Disney at 7:30am. Got to the Magic Kingdom thinking that it opened at 8am, when in fact it didn’t open till 9am. None the less we were literally the first to walk into Magic Kingdom and I have to say that it was the best thing we did all day. At 8:00 AM the Magic Kingdom train rolled into the station and off comes Mickey and all his friends to greet us into the park. The flood gates open and off we rush on our first of 3 fun-filled parks. We had been told to go clockwise thru the park, because statistically the crowd goes counter-clockwise. And so for the first 2 and half hours we got all the way through Magic Kingdom, the only thing we didn’t do that we wanted was Pirates of Caribbean (closed), Space Mtn. (2 hour wait), and Tiki Room.
We went on:
Swiss Family Robinson Tree house
Splash Mtn.
Big Thunder Railroad
Haunted Mansion
Peter Pan’s Flight
It’s a Small World
Mickey’s Philharmagic
Cinderella’s Carousel
Arial’s Grotto
Snow White’s Scary Adventure
Toontown and Minnie’s Country House
Tommorowland Transit Authority
By noon we were headed on the monorail to Epcot. We got to Epcot and what we missed out on was Soarin’, Nemo and Friends, and Spaceship Earth.
But went around the world from Canada to Mexico… stopping to watch a guy balance on 8 chairs in France, went shopping, rode Maelstrom in Norway, had lunch at Marrakesh in Morocco, saw animal candy making in Japan, had the best deserts at the bakery in France, had guacamole and churro’s in Mexico.
We then headed to Universal Studio’s by 3:30 via bus and were already starting to get a little tired. But we pushed on and headed to my favorite ride… “Towwwwwwwwwwwwer of Teeeerrrrror”!!! We rode it, followed by “Aerosmith’s Rockin’ Roller Coaster”. Then went back to “Tower of Terror” and rode it again. Hell Yeah! At this point we were ready for dinner, so we had burgers and fries outside Rockin roller coaster.
Next up was “The Backlit tour” which takes you on a journey through a live stunt stage and they dump hundreds of thousands of gallons of water over your head in a canyon.
After that Amelia and I went to a childhood dream of ours, the “Honey I Shrunk the Kids playground”. We walked thru a life-size set of the movie and took a few photos.
Then was time for another favorite of mine the “Muppet’s 3D movie”, another childhood memory of mine.
Did some more shopping and ended our day of rides with “Star Tours”-the ride simulator.
We headed back to Magic Kingdom to shop and snack on some peanut-cameral covered apples, just before the fireworks called “Wishes Nighttime Spectacular” which was cool to watch on Main Street.
Being totally exhausted we thought that by sitting on the curb we would just wait out the crowd of people. Let me tell you how exciting it is to watch about 50,000 people walk past you! As we got ready to go, we realized that the last parade of the day was about ready to start and so we watched the “Illuminations” parade which is an entire float parade with nothing but LED lights on the costumes.
By midnight we were so tired that we got back to Omar’s house and crashed. And that is how you do Disney in 16 Hours!!!!
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You guys KILLED IT!!! Very impressed.
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