- Joined
- Jul 3, 2014
I need to get my thoughts down from this AM in one spot before I forget them all.
Set the alarm for 6am.
DS8 and I left YC via foot just before 6:40am. We walked - around a 20ish min walk at a medium to fast pace and the detour through the temporary bus stop.
DW and DD4 said to heck with my plan to be there at/before 7am, so told us to go ahead and they'd come later. They took a boat that YC around 7:18am and were at HS around 10 mins later. She said they went directly from BC/YC dock to HS and skipped Swolphin.
6:51am, at the BWI/YC/BC/Swolphin walking path where it detours temporarily around the new bus stop construction.
6:56am. The DHS front entrance is a serious hot mess right now, but construction is moving very quickly it seems. This appears to be quite an upgrade over the prior bus station setup.
6:56am. Still making our way around the detour.
7:00am. My goal to make it before 7 didn't work out so well. They were already letting people in at this point, so I'm not sure when they first let folks in. You really notice the DHS background music when it's still quiet at this hour.
7:05am.
They funneled everyone to the ABC Commissary - you didn't have a choice at this point. As we were going past the Chinese Theater, a CM told us TSL would be open at 7:30am. Other than that, there really wasn't much communication that we experienced. Pretty much just going with the flow at this point.
This pic was taken at 7:12am. I would estimate the ABC Commissary was roughly 80% full at this point. The multiple buffet setups kept the lines short but the lines at the hot entree ordering stations seemed long. I did not personally wait in them so not sure true waits. Honestly, I was surprised just how many people were already there eating breakfast - at 7:12am - who had obviously arrived well before us.
We had a cinnamon role and decided to head out, where we found this queue forming. Time stamp is 7:19am. Not going to lie, I was starting to get a little down as this (plus the amount of people in the Commissary) was more than I expected. Not entirely unexpected I guess, maybe just a bit more than I had hoped.
Set the alarm for 6am.
DS8 and I left YC via foot just before 6:40am. We walked - around a 20ish min walk at a medium to fast pace and the detour through the temporary bus stop.
DW and DD4 said to heck with my plan to be there at/before 7am, so told us to go ahead and they'd come later. They took a boat that YC around 7:18am and were at HS around 10 mins later. She said they went directly from BC/YC dock to HS and skipped Swolphin.
6:51am, at the BWI/YC/BC/Swolphin walking path where it detours temporarily around the new bus stop construction.
6:56am. The DHS front entrance is a serious hot mess right now, but construction is moving very quickly it seems. This appears to be quite an upgrade over the prior bus station setup.
6:56am. Still making our way around the detour.
7:00am. My goal to make it before 7 didn't work out so well. They were already letting people in at this point, so I'm not sure when they first let folks in. You really notice the DHS background music when it's still quiet at this hour.
7:05am.
They funneled everyone to the ABC Commissary - you didn't have a choice at this point. As we were going past the Chinese Theater, a CM told us TSL would be open at 7:30am. Other than that, there really wasn't much communication that we experienced. Pretty much just going with the flow at this point.
This pic was taken at 7:12am. I would estimate the ABC Commissary was roughly 80% full at this point. The multiple buffet setups kept the lines short but the lines at the hot entree ordering stations seemed long. I did not personally wait in them so not sure true waits. Honestly, I was surprised just how many people were already there eating breakfast - at 7:12am - who had obviously arrived well before us.
We had a cinnamon role and decided to head out, where we found this queue forming. Time stamp is 7:19am. Not going to lie, I was starting to get a little down as this (plus the amount of people in the Commissary) was more than I expected. Not entirely unexpected I guess, maybe just a bit more than I had hoped.