It was already blazing hot at 10 o'clock in the morning as I stood in line waiting for the monorail doors to open. This was a ride in itself. As soon as they opened people started cramming themselves into it, eager to get to the Magic Kingdom as fast as they could. I was one of them.
The doors opened again and people began flooding out of them, which I'm sure is quite funny to see because as soon as they run out of the monorail, they all run to the nearest entrance and try to shove 5 people into a one person place. Of course, I was shoved in as well, but I was in. Immediately, we went to guest relations to find a button to wear for the day (we've gotta get them all!) and I picked out my first time button. Ok, so it was my first time in years, but I had a button!
Of course there were pictures taken in front of the castle and dealing with the hundreds of people also wanting that magical photo, was nothing short of challenging. As our group of 5 ran after our "Mom" we all went to Tomorrowland and rode all the rides except for the Buzz Lightyear ride (thanks Mom!) and quickly moved on to the next ride and the next ride and the next ride. Now usually, it's extremely difficult to ride every ride in the park on the same day, but we came pretty darn close! We rode everyone that was worth riding, and even did a couple twice (Splash Mountain and Space Mountain).
Splash Mountain happened to be closed when we went to grab our fast passes, so we had to wait until it was opened. It gave us time to ride some other rides until finally it was open. We shoved ourselves into the herd of people waiting to get theirs as soon as it opened and all ran to get them as fast as we could so we could hurry up and wait. Off we went on more rides and then quickly walked (we had a light jog as a pace all day) back to get in line. Finally we were on this ride, hoping to get a relief from the heat with the giant splash at the end. I couldn't help but smile the entire time, bringing back memories of when my family and I went on it after waiting almost 3 hours and getting drenched. I loved every moment of it. After getting very wet, we got off, excited to see what was coming next. What came next was probably my most favorite part of the day! Woody and Jessie from Toy Story were right there as we came off the ride! 30 minutes later, I had my picture taken next to them, giving them hugs and definitely more excited than the little kids in front of me.
But because we had so much fun the first time on Splash Mountain, and the fast pass line was close to the line for Jessie and Woody, we decided, why not go a second time? Of course that met we had to go do something else first and then jump back in line. We had 6 people at this point, meaning the 8 passenger boat was going to have two people that were fortunate to go with us crazy people. Now seeing that we were on a ride, we all had to put our arms up. The ENTIRE time. We screamed every time we went around a corner down a little slope or even up one. If we went around a corner, not only were we yelling and acting obnoxious, but we would lean to one side. I may have been the one encouraging and leading this obnoxious behavior, but you'll never really know, will you? The people behind us, well at first they were scared, but by the end, they were joining in. Then came time for the big drop. Arms up, vocal chords engaged all the way to the top. But our picture, had to be nothing short of epic. Thumbs up and and goofy faces as we plunged down the 50 foot drop. By the time we got to the bottom, we had gone back to our original positions. The ride continued and we continued to scream and hold our arms up (and so did the couple with us). The ride was a little backed up toward the loading dock and then someone had the epic idea to start a wave. Now you can only imagine what happened after. Starting in our boat and three times later, boats behind us were joining in. Most epic ride ever. We continued to scream as we got off, cast members joining in as well. Magical.
The rest of the day was pretty epic as well and ended with ice cream for dinner as we watched the fireworks over Cinderella's Castle. We took the ferry back to the buses, all hot and feeling gross from the past 12 hours. The bus ride was cool, but didn't take away from the grungy feeling. We were finally back and made sure anything important was not in our pockets. Two seconds later we were all in the pool, fully clothed and very relieved.
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