2007 ... Disney , A Whole New World!
Day By Day Diary
2007 ... Disney , A Whole New World!
Day By Day Diary
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
2007 Day By Day Diary
Friday March 2nd, 2007
The annual kickoff party starts at 7:00PM here at The Disney Training Center. All of this years cast members for the trip are here. David,Laurie, & Heather Hartmann. Scott & Trevor Jung. Plus Shelly,Kirstie,Nick, and myself. Former castmembers from past trips also attend: Greg,Michelle, & Hailey Voss (1999,2000,2003). Phil,Linda,Kelly, & Kyle Citro (2006). Betsy Migacz (2004) Katie Van Alstine (2006) The party breaks up around midnight. Everyone is in bed trying to sleep around 12:30AM
Saturday March 3rd, 2007
Up at 5:00 AM and smoothly out the door at 5:30 AM on the way to Mitchell International Airport. Transportation courtesy of Michelle Voss. Thanks Michelle! Check in at the airport goes smooth and we’re at gate D43 with David,Laurie,& Heather Hartmann. Boarding goes right on time at 7:00 AM. The plane ends up leaving about 20 minutes late because we are waiting on some luggage to get loaded from some people that were switching planes on to ours. The flight is only 17 minutes late arriving at 11:22 AM in Orlando. We exit the plane and go to the wrong side of the terminal before David finds out and leads us the right way. Midwest Airlines is using a different gate than we are used to so we get turned around. Once we’re on the right side we get to Disneys Magic Express and are checked in and on our way in about ten minutes. Thirty minutes later we are checking in at Pop Century. Check in takes about 5 minutes. Next we go to the food court and eat. As we’re eating we call Scott and Trevor to see where they are. They are on the way about 15 minutes out. They live in Racine and Flew out of O’hare because they booked their flight in mid summer and O’hare had the best price. After that we walk around the grounds to check it out because we have never stayed here before. Its actually pretty nice. There is a large lagoon that is adjacent to the hotel with a bridge across it to the other half of Pop Century that is only partially built. Next we head back to the front desk to meet Scott & Trevor who are about to arrive. As soon as we get to the front desk we find them. We go up to our rooms one more time before getting on the bus for Magic Kingdom. Upon arriving at Magic KIngdom we catch the end of the 3:00 afternoon parade. Its just started raining pretty good just as we arrive at the Kingdom. Once the parade is over we head up Main Street USA and over to Tommorowland. Scott, David, & I go to Space Mountain to get fast passes while everyone else gets in line for Buzz Lightyear. The wait is about 15 minutes. As we get back to Buzz after getting fast passes we skip into line with the rest of the group and do Buzz. After Buzz we go on Carousel Of Progress. After Carousel we do Wedway People Mover. After Wedway we head over to Indy Speedway. Shelly’s car is a dog and she is holding everyone up so we ram her. Nick is driving with me. Trevor is driving with Scott. Heather, Laurie, Shelly, and David are driving solo. After Indy are fast pass time is available so we all do Space Mountain. After Space Mountain we head towards Fantasyland. I take Heather,Nick, & Trevor with me on the Tea Cups and give them “The Spin Of Death” We all are pretty dizzy after the ride stops. Laurie and David ride in another cup. Shelly, Scott, & Kirstie don’t ride. After cups we go to Mickeys Philharmagic. After Philharmagic we go to Columbia Harbor House to eat. We eat upstairs with a great view of The Haunted Mansion entrance. When we are done eating we to Haunted Mansion. After Mansion we go to Hall Of Presidents. As soon as Presidents is over Spectromagic is about to start. We head over to Caseys but find its pretty crowded allready so we go back to Presidents to watch Spectromagic. When Spectro is over we go over to our usual spot by the castle for Wishes. After Wishes we go to Frontierland and ride Big Thunder Mountain two times in a row. There is next to no wait. After that Shelly,Kirstie,Nick & I go on Splash Mountain twice in a row, There is next to no wait there either. Kirstie & I are in the front row both times. The first time we both get totally soaked. The second time isn’t so bad. Everyone else rides Big Thunder 4 more times after we moved to Splash Mountain. After our last ride its 10:05PM and the park has just closed. We exit to bus stop 18 for about a 15 minute wait and back to Pop Century. Off the bus its into the gift shop for some sandwiches,2 liters of soda,and then to the food court to get a sandwich for me. Back in the room at 11:30 PM. Out luggage is right where its supposed to be. Everyone is down at the Bowling Pin pool while I’m catching up with this account of yet another year of Disney magic. Kirstie is on the phone with my son in law. Its now 11:52PM an I’m going to make a drink and head down to the pool. Everyone goes to bed at about 12:30 except all the kids stay up and watch a movie in Scott & Trevors room and Scott & I have some drinks on the balcony. Shelly ends everything at 2:00 AM by yelling at all of us for making to much noise. I guess the day is over.
Sunday March 4th, 2007
Up at 10:30 AM and out the door for Epcot at 11:30 AM. First we go to The Land to eat .
Everyone else is there allready. They got to Epcot early so they have fast passes for Soarin. Fast Pass was all sold out by the time we get there. After eating
Shelly,Kirstie,Nick, and I went on standby for Soarin. It was supposed to be 60 minutes but it turned out to be only 25 from start of the line to ride time. After Soarin we took the boat across World Showcase Lagoon to Morocco. Off the boat to American Adventure and The Voices Of Liberty. After the singers and the movie we got some beer,wine, and chips at Norway and walked down to China to see the Dragon Legend Acrobats. After that we head over to The Electric Umbrella to eat. On the way we ran into everyone else. They were going to make their way around World Showcase and stop at one of the countries to eat. We agreed to meet at Mexico for Illuminations around 8:00 PM. After eating Nick & I go on Mission Space while Shelly and Kirstie shop at Mouse Gear. After we get off Mission Space we run into Shelly & Kirstie and go to Mexico at 7:30PM to save seats around one of the flower gardens near the lagoon. While there Shelly,Kirstie, and I have a Margarita and some nachos. The rest of the group shows up around 8:00PM. After we all see Illuminations we go to Magic Kingdom because its open till 2:00 AM. On the way out Scott and Kirstie get ahead of us so we can’t take the monorail over cause we’re afraid they are at the bus stop waiting for us. They are. We get them and go back to the monorail station and head over to Magic Kingdom. Upon arrival at the gate I realize I don’t have my room key with me and can’t get in for extra magic hours. I decide to go back to the hotel and just skip the extra magic hours. On the way to the bus stop David calls and says he wants to hand his room key over to me at the gate and scam my way into the park. I am concerned that they know I was just in the park as I used my pass to get in so why am I now coming in again? David says they won;t know so I come back to the entrance and he hands me a room key. I start to enter the park again and just like I thought my pass doesn’t work. A castmember asks me if I have just used my pass to get in recently. I say yes but I forgot my room key and had to go to the car to get it. She scans the ticket and says you entered the park at 10:03 PM and its only about 10 minutes after that. How did you get all the way to the parking lot and back here so quick. The lies are starting to turn on me. I say my friends brought me my room key and I just had to go down by the road near the busses to pick it up. I think she is definitly on to me now. I keep to my story and she keeps repeating it trying to get me to change something and trip me up. Finally she says she’ll give me the benifit of the doubt and let me in. I really wasn’t doing anything wrong except for forgetting my room key. But she didn’t know that and had to grilll me. I probably should have went with my first instinct and just gone back to the hotel to stay or get the room key. Once in we wait for some of the group to get back from the restroom. Spectromagic is in progress so I suggest we travel through the gift shops to avoid the parade spectators so we can get to Pirates Of The Caribbean faster. We quickly move through the gift shops and are out and turning into Adventureland on the way to Pirates. After arriving there I realize that I only have Kirstie,Trevor,Heather, & Nick that have been following me. We wonder where the rest of the group is. Probably just slow. So we wait and discuss what the deal might be. Maybe they think we were heading to Splash Mountain like we were originally planning, maybe they stopped at the bathroom, maybe they are just slow. Atter waiting a couple of minutes I decide to just go on the ride and they will be here by the time we get off. When we get off the ride they are now there and Scott is not happy because he didn’t know Trevor was with us for sure. Apparently something caught his eye in the gift shop and he stopped. I didn’t know he stopped and kept going. David and Laurie didn’t know either until they were out the gift shop and Scott wasn’t behind them. They wait and find out he was looking at something in the gift shop and exited another door. Then they went to Pirates where we heard the whole story. Trevor was busted for not letting Scott know where he was. He was just following me and Kirstie though assuming everyone was behind us which they weren’t. Scott was the one that wasn’t paying attention. Next Kirstie,Nick, Trevor, and I do Splash Mountain twice as I want to avoid the tension that appears to be building about the previous incident. Shellys got that crazy look in her eye. After exiting our second ride on Splash Mountain we run back into the group minus Scott. He has had enough for today and went back to the room. We now all go on Big Thunder 3 times before Nick,Trevor,Shelly, and I head to Haunted Mansion,Small World, Mickeys Philharmagic, and Indy Speedway. David,Laurie,Heather, & Kirstie go do Buzz Lightyear and Space Mountain. When we make our way down to Space Mountain we call to let them know but they are heading back to the hotel. All four of us ride Space Mountain once and then Nick & Trevor ride 5 more times in a row. Its 1:52AM so we do one last ride on Buzz LIghtyear. After Buzz it’s 2:02AM so we head out of the park to the bus stop for Pop Century. Back in the room around 2:30 AM. Everyone is in bed within 25 minutes and I’m having a drink and writing this account. Its 3:25AM now and I will be in bed shortly for some rest before day three tomorrow.
Monday March 5th, 2007
Shelly and Kirstie are up at 10:30 AM and out the door for MGM by 11:00 AM . I lay in bed till 11:30 AM before I get up completely to shower and get ready to leave. Nick watchs cartoons until I’m ready. We get out of the hotel room around 12:00PM. We go to Pop Century food court to eat. Nick takes over an hour to eat 3 chicken strips and frys. I stand tough and make him finish cause it costs almost 8 bucks. When we finally get to the park Nick miraculously 45 minutes later says he wants ice cream. My hunch at the food court was right. He was just jerking my chain. As Nick and I exit the bus at Studios I turn on one of the walkie talkies to see if I can find the group. I immediatly get a call from Shelly who is at Beauty & The Beast Stage Show about to enter. NIck and I make our way there and see the show with Shelly & Kirstie. After Beast we go to One Mans Dream. After One Mans Dream we wait for High School Musical at The Sorceror Hat but they have changed the location to Streets Of America because of ESPN Sports Weekend. Next Shelly & Kirstie use their fast passes for Rockin Roller Coaster while Nick & I get icecream. When they get out of Coaster we use fast passes to go on Tower Of Terror. Nick doesn’t ride and waits in the gift shop. After Tower we head back over to Streets Of America for High School Musical. When that show is over we go to Little Mermaid. Now its 5:35PM so we head over to Fantasmic entrance to meet the rest of the group who have been at Studios all day. Kirstie & Shelly get food at Rosies and we all wait for the rest to show up. At 6:00 PM they show up and we all enter Fantasmic for the show. I grab a hot dog and chips at Hollywood Hills Amphitheatre. When Fantasmic ends we all go to The Great Movie Ride. After Movie Ride everyone except Nick & I goes to Muppetvvision 3D. Nick & I try to find something to eat. Everything on this end of the park is closed so we end up joining everyone for Muppetvision anyway. After The Muppets Heather & Laurie go to Downtown Disney to shop. The rest of us except Shelly,Kirstie,& Scott go on Star Tours twice. After Star Tours Shelly & Kirstie go back to the hotel while Scott, David, Nick, Trevor, & I go on Rockin Roller Coaster twice. Now we head for the busses at 10:52PM and go back to the hotel. Nick,Trevor, & Heather play tag, draw, and play pictochat till 3:15AM while Scott & I have drinks and solve the problems of the world.
Tuesday March 6, 2007
Up at 11:30AM and out the door for Animal Kingdom at 12:25PM. Shelly has been up and gone at 8:00AM because she is going to meet her friend Rebecca and daughter Morgan at Magic Kingdom. We plan on going to Magic Kingdom and hooking up with them after Animal Kingdom. Kirstie, Nick, & I arrive at Animal Kingdom around 1:00 PM. I order our food from Flame Tree Broiler with Nick while Kirstie goes and gets us fast passes for Expedition Everest. Kirstie comes back successful and we eat. After we finish eating its near 2:00 PM so we go get in line for Finding Nemo The Musical at Theatre in The Wild. The line is allready about 300 ft long. At 2:30 sharp they start letting people in the theatre for the show. We get great seats 5th row from the stage and next to the walkway for the performers. The show is fantastic. It’s Kirstie and Nicks first time seeing it. Shelly and I saw a soft performance on December 14th,2006 during our Christmas trip. After Nemo we head over to Dinoland and ride Primevil Whirl. Nick wants to go again so Nick & I go again while Kirstie waits. After the second Primevil its time for our fast pass on Expedition Everest. After Everest we go back to Dinoland and ride Dinosaur. Then we exit the park around 5:00 PM and make our way to the bus to go to Magic Kingdom. At Magic Kingdom we head over to Tommorowland Terrace Noodle Station to eat. After we eat Nick & Kirstie ride Buzz Lightyear. After Buzz we head over to Hall Of Presidents area to find Shelly,Rebecca, & Morgan for Spectromagic. They aren’t there but are instead a little further down the road in Frontierland. Kirstie,Nick, & I watch from a little bit down the way from them. After Spectro we all go to Cinderella Castle for Wishes. When Wishes concludes Rebecca and Morgan exit the park to go home. Kirstie and Nick go back to the hotel, and Shelly & I take a boat to The Polynisian to watch The Electric Light Pageant. When The Light Pageant is over we catch the monrail from The Polynisian back to Magic Kingdom to get our bus back to Pop Century. Back at Pop Century at 9:05PM. We stop at the food court for something to eat back at the room. This is the earliest we’ve been back to the room so far this trip. Out on the balcony till 2:20AM with Shelly,Scott, and the kids who are in and out of the room. The guy two doors down just came out in his pajamas with a look that could only mean it is time to go to bed. So we all do before security comes.
Wednesday March 7th, 2007
Up at 11:30AM and out the door for Animal Kingdom at 12:30PM. Once at Animal Kingdom Shelly goes for fast passes while Kirstie,Nick, & I get food from Flame Tree Broiler. We eat again next to the lagoon at Flame Tree with a beautiful view of Expedition Everest. After we eat its off to Its Tough To Be A Bug. Next we try to do Kilimanjaro Safaris but the wait is too long. We go to Finding The Nemo The Musical and get in line at about 2:10PM. Three different people approach me for information because they think I’m a cast member. I’m loving it. Shelly,Kirstie, & Nick are laughing it up. We decide to get the video camera out to catch the next one that comes up but the line starts to move in before that happens. Finding Nemo is great again. There are a few different cast members playing the roles than yesterday. After Nemo we go have some ice cream outside Everest before using our fast pass. We also get another fast for Everest. We finish our ice cream and use our first fast pass on Everest. Then we go on Kilimanjaro Safari. When we are done on Safari we go back to Everest for our second fast pass. I buy a shirt and Nick gets a Yeti plush. We have them sent back to our hotel. After we exit Everest again we make our way back to the exit while checking all the gift shops along the way for a miniature Rafiki plush for Yvonne. She saw ours over Christmas and said she wanted one. So far we haven’t been able to find one. We we exit the park and travel to Port Orleans Riverside instead of our hotel so we can take the scenic boat ride to Downtown Disney. When we arrive downtown we eat at The Earl Of Sandwich as per Kirsties recommendation. It is excellent. When we are done eating it’s about 7:15PM so we shop at The World Of Disney Store for and hour before making our way over to Cirque du Soleils 9:00 PM performance. Cirque is not as good as it was last year. The tightrope walker almost fell and lost his balancing pole. The trapeze artists had two misses and fell to the safety net below. The crowd wasn’t very responsive to the show. It also wasn’t as good this year because I knew what was coming where as last year everyting was a complete surprise. We leave Cirque and head for the bus stop for Pop Century. We are at the bus stop for only a few minutes when our bus pulls up. We can’t get on though because Scott has left for a water down the road. We now wait for the next bus and then go back to Pop Century. We sit out on the balcony will 1:15AM having drinks and talking while the kids play tag and their Nintendo DS. Done with todays record of today and now ready to watch some tv and have another drink. Another Drink? Hey i’m on vacation!
Thursday March 8th, 2007
Up at 11:30AM. Shelly and Kirstie go to the pool to hang out and do laundry. Nick doesn’t get up till 12:00 PM. I am just watching tv and changing batteries on my lighted pins. Nick and I go to the pool to get a Pop Century cup from Shelly and Kirstie around 1:30 PM so we can go to the food court and eat. After eating we meet Shelly and Kirstie at the room and head out for Epcot at 2:30PM. When we get to Epcot we jump on Spaceship Earth and then go to The Land for Soarin fast pass. They are all sold out. We go to Energy Adventure but it is down so we ride Test Track instead. After Test Track we go to The Seas With Nemo And Friends. We do the pull through ride and also Crushes Turtle Talk. We leave The Seas and do standby for an hour for Soarin. When we get done with Soarin we take the boat to Morocco. We get off the boat and go to Japan to eat at Yakatori which has a beautiful gardens area with Japanese lanterns. When we finish eating we plan to go to Norway for Maelstrom and bathrooms. After hitting the bathrooms at Norway much to our surprise we bump into Scott and Trevor at the smoking area adjacent to Norway. (This is where Scott spent alot of his days in the park.) It really is a small world. All six of us head over to Mexico to get seats for Illuminations around 8:00 PM. We do Marquaritas and nachos and tacos before the show. After the show Shelly and Kirstie go to Mouse Gear to shop while Scott,Trevor,Nick, and I head for the bus back to Pop Century. Upon arrival at Pop Century we stop at the gift shop to pick up Nicks Yeti and my shirt that we bought the day before at Expedition Everest. We now go back to the room and hang out on the balcony talking and having some drinks. Hartmanns get back from Pirates & Princess Party at Magic KIngdom around Midnight. They say its a really a cool show with lots of attractions and fantastic fireworks. We will have to try it sometime in the future when we haven’t blown as much money as we have blown allready this year. At 1:00AM we come inside for bed. Its now 1:09AM as I am writing this but I will probably be up at least another hour or two watching tv. Tommorrow we tentativly will be starting off at Animal Kingdom so Shelly can get her second dose of Finding Nemo The Musical (My Third) and probably catch some things we missed this year like Wonders Of Flight, The Lion King Show, and of course more rides on Expedition Everest. Then hopefully over to Studios for whatever we can fit in before Fantasmic. Then a quick exit out Studios and on the boat to Epcot for the third viewing of Illuminations at 9:00PM. I think Epcot has Extra Magic hours till midnight on Friday night so we can pound Soarin, Energy Adventure,Test Track, etc.
Friday March 9th, 2007
Shelly is up and at the pool at 9:30AM. Kirstie,Nick, & I are up at 10:30 AM. Out the door at 11:45AM for Animal Kingdom. After entering Animal Kingdom we go right to Pizzafari to eat lunch. After lunch we all walk to Expedition Everest to get fast passes. Then we go to Dinoland and ride Dinosaur twice. After Dinosaur we get in line for Finding Nemo The Musical. When we exit Nemo we go on Kilimanjaro Safari. After Kilimanjaro we all take the train to Rafikis Planet Watch. Then Kirstie and Shelly leave for MGM Studios to meet Hartmanns for Fantasmic at 6:00 PM in front of Beauty & The Beast. Scott,Trevor,Nick, & I ride Expedition Everest. After the first ride Nick & Trevor use Kirstie & Shellys fastpass for a second ride. After the second ride Trevor realizes he left his hat in the car on the first ride. Scott and Trevor go to ask a castmember for help in finding it. While they are doing that the park is about to close and they are announcing that it’s the last ride on Everest. Nick runs in to tell Scott & Trevor that we are going to ride again. Nick and I ride the last ride and then we all exit the park for Studios. When we arrive at Studios it’s 6:40PM. We have 20 minutes to get to Hollywood HIlls Amphitheatre for Fantasmic. When we get to the theatre Scott calls ahead to find out where the group is cause they are saving us seats. We get in our seats 15 minutes prior to showtime and see Fantasmic. After Fantasmic we all take the boat to Epcot for Illuminations. We first get our Extra Magic Hours bracelets and then walk around World Showcase to Mexico and see Illuminations. When Illuminations is over we make our way to Soarin but the line is long so we decide to do Energy Adventure instead. Laurie decides to go back to the room. We get to Energy Adventure and it is down again. Next David,Trevor, & I ride Mission Space full version. Trevor loves it and wants to ride again. Instead we all ride Test Track. After Test Track we all head over to Soarin again. On the way we notice a character area and go in for pictures. After hamming it up with Mickey,Minnie,Goofy,Pluto,Chip and Dale we wait in line one hour for Soarin. When we finish Soarin it’s park closing time and we exit for the bus back to Pop Century. Back at Pop Century we do something totally different. Chaa, we sit out on the balcony and have drinks till 1:30AM. Tomorrow Kirstie and Shelly are going to be up at 9:30AM and on the way to MGM Studios before 11:30AM to see Kirsties friend Lauren Tuska perform with her Cheer Squad at Studios. Nick might go to Blizzard Beach with Scott and Trevor. I will catch up with Shelly and Kirstie at Studios. Its 1:50AM now and I will be up another hour at least watching tv. Two more nights and three more days and the countdown will begin for April 12th, 2008 Disney Trek. Goodnight!
Saturday March 10th, 2007
Shelly and Kirstie are gone at 9:15AM because Shelly reads her watch wrong and thinks it’s and hour later than it really is. Scott & Trevor are ready to leave for Blizzard Beach at 11:00AM. Nick doesn’t want to go. We sleep till 11:30AM. Hartmanns are doing Magic Kingdom and want to meet up tonight somewhere for a group picture with our trip shirts on. I don’t think Shelly and Kirstie have theirs on because they didn’t know. They can put them on tonight when we get back to the hotel. I leave for the food court at 1:00 PM and get some food while Nick stays in the room watching cartoons. When I come back we leave for Studios around 1:15PM. When we get to MGM we call Shelly on the walkie talkies and find out they are at Beauty & The Beast saving us seats. Four For A Dollar is on before the show and as usual they are great. They have a new singer in place of Andrew. After Beast Shelly,Kirstie, & Nick go to ABC Commissary to eat while I go for fast passes on Rockin Roller Coaster. They are sold out allready. I make my way to Commissary with the news. When they are done eating I suggest because of the large crowds at Studios today we go to Animal Kingdom till 6:00PM closing. Kirstie decides to go back to the hotel while the rest of us go to Animal KIngdom. Shelly,and Nick get in line for Finding Nemo The Musical while I go for fast passes to Expedition Everest. They are sold out. I go to Nemo and get in line with them for the 4:45PM show. After Nemo we go over to Everest at 5:30PM and wait in standby for about 15 minutes before we ride. After the ride Nick & I ride again.The park is closing now so we go to Magic Kingdom and eat at Columbia Harbor House . When we finish eating we set up in front of Hall Of Presidents for Spectromagic. Shelly calls the Hartmanns and finds out they are at Pinochios eating. Kirstie arrives from the hotel about 5 minutes before Spectromagic and Scott, Trevor, and The Hartmanns arrive shortly after. When we all finish watching Spectromagic we go to Cinderella Castle for Wishes. After Wishes we set up for a picture of the whole group in front of Cinderella Castle. After our picture we go to Pirates Of The Caribbean. We wait about 20 minutes to ride. After Pirates we all go on Splash Mountain. Trevor,Nick, & Scott are sitting three across in the front row. They get totally soaked. Next we go on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad two times in a row. It is now 11:00 PM and the park is closing. We make our way quickly back to the bus because the gift shop at Pop Century closes at 12:00AM so we want to get back to get snacks,food, & drinks. The kids go swimming while the rest of us hang out on the balcony having drinks etc. Daylight savings time starts tonight at 2:00AM so our clocks will be set an hour ahead tonight. It’s 3:40AM (4:40AM actually with daylight savings) now and I probably will be up at least another half hour watching tv. Scott & Trevor have their last day tomorrow before flying out Sunday night. The rest of us still have all day Sunday and Sunday night plus Monday till 4:00PM when we have to catch our bus to the airport.
Sunday March 11th, 2007
Shelly and KIrstie are up at 11:30AM and off to Epcot for The American Adventure. Nick & I are out the door at 2:00PM. We plan to go to Animal Kingdom again for Finding Nemo The Musical and Expedition Everest. We will meet Shelly and Kirstie at MGM for Fantasmic 7:00PM show. From there we plan to finish at Magic Kingdom because it is open till 2:00AM. Nick & I check out Everest and find out fast pass is sold out. We then get in line for 3:00PM Finding Nemo The Musical Show. The line is all the way to Triceratops Spin. We get in but standing room only in the back of the theatre. After Nemo we eat at Restaurantosauraus. Nick takes 45 minutes to eat 10 chicken nuggets and some fries. Mr. Powerplay is up to his old tricks or his brain has a bigger appetite than his stomach. Finally we head over to Kilamanjaro Safari but the wait is to long. We go back to Everest and wait around a while to see if it opens but it doesn’t. It’s around 5:30PM now and we decide to leave for MGM to meet Shelly and Kirstie for Fantasmic. When we get to MGM we can’t raise them on the walkie talkies so we stop at ABC Commissary to eat. After I eat we do the animation tour but don’t draw because it ‘s getting close to 6:00PM. We go to Fantasmic and bump into KIrstie on the way. She is going back to the hotel because she forgot her room key and won’t be able to get in for Extra Magic Hours at Magic Kingdom. When Fantasmic ends Shelly,Nick, & I get on the bus for Ticket Transportation Center and then take the monorail over to Magic Kingdom. Spectromagic is about to start its second show at 10:00PM so we go through the shops to avoid the crowds and go to Columbia Harbor House so Shelly can use the bathroom. After that Shelly & Kirstie want to go to Pecos Bill to eat. Nick and I decide to go on Haunted Mansion because it is right there and then go to Splash Mountain because we aren’t going to eat. Shelly gets snippy and says we might as well split up. So we do. After Nick & I do Mansion we go on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad once and then do Splash Mountain three times. After Splash Mouintain we go on Pirates Of The Caribbean. After Pirates we stop at Dole Pineapple and I get a whipped soft serve pineapple cup. Next we make our way to Tommorowland and ride Buzz Lightyear. After Buzz we go on Astro Orbitor. After Astro Orbitor we go towards Space Mountain but it looks crowded so we go on Indianapolis Speedway instead. After Indy we go on Pooh and then Snow White. Next we go on Philharmagic where we run into Shelly. Kirstie left her and hour or more earlier because she says she is tired. Shelly,Nick, & I watch Philharmagic and then do Pooh one more time before exiting the park for the bus. It’s 2:48AM now and we are packing before bed because we will be checking out for 2007 by 11:00AM tomorow morning. We will go to a park until we have to be back for our ride to the airport at 4:15PM.
Monday March 12th, 2007
Up at 10:00AM to shower up and pack. We all are out the door at exactly 11:00AM. Shelly & Kirstie go to Magic Kingdom. Nick & I go to Animal Kingdom. I go for fast pass on Everest while Nick gets our food at Flametree. Fast pass is for 4:05PM so we can’t use it because we will be gone by then. After we eat we go on Primevil Whirl. Then we go on Dinosaur. After Dinosaur we go to Wonders Of Flight. After Wonders Of Flight we do Its Tough To Be A Bug and then leave for the bus to get back to Pop Century. Back to Pop Century at 3:45PM. Our bus arrives early so we leave around 3:50PM for the airport. Check in at McCoy International goes smooth and we are at our gate an hour and a half before our scheduled takeoff. The first flight of the day out of Milwaukee was 20 minutes late so all the flights including ours was off by 20 minutes. We depart at 7:10PM and arrive in Milwaukee at 9:05PM. Jenny is at the terminal within 10 minutes of our call to her. We are back in the house at 9:45PM. Nick goes right for a bath and off to bed because it’s back to school tomorrow. Shelly starts unpacking and I am starting to put up some of the art work in the training center for next year and resetting the countdown clock for next year.
As of right now April 12th, 2008 is exactly 395 days, 11 hours, 39 minutes, and 40 seconds till next years trip. 2008 ... Disney Trek!