At the hockey game, he bought a Tampa Bay Lightning magnet.
Hmmm.... interesting. He bought it because... collects them? Second favourite team? Because he was there?
I also found the pictures of the two tin signs he bought at the Coke store.
I really like those!
Another thing Jim did while solo at Disney Springs was to make me two different Pluto pressed pennies.
Nice of him. Do you collect pressed pennies too? Or just because they had Pluto on them?
I wasn’t able to get Slinky Dog Dash FPs till later in the week
Not surprised. I hear those things are going like hotcakes.
well poop
It was going to be a scorcher of a day, well into the 90s and almost as hot as it was during my August trip.
I also decided to pull my hair back for the day. I prefer to have it down for pictures but when it’s that hot I want it up off of my neck!
I can't relate, of course... but I can certainly get that.
Love this shot!
We hiked to the front of All Star Sports and then through some parking lots over to All Star Music. It took us about 10 minutes to make it to Bell Services at All Star Music.
Not too bad. I've stayed at ASMu several times, but have never trekked to the other two resorts.
After that, we ducked into the food court
No. You ducked earlier when Jim was with him on the tennis court.
we walked straight onto a completely empty bus to HS.
Score!
We arrived at HS and started the long trek from the buses to the main entrance. I had read about how long this walk was but honestly thought it wouldn’t be that bad. Yeah no, it was that bad, even Jim commented on it and he never complains about walking anywhere.
Wow. I've only recently heard of the mess there. I didn't know it was
that bad.
By 7:50 am, this was our view.
If only it would stay that way...
We ended up second in line at the turnstile we picked.
Not bad at all!
Jim immediately plopped down on the ground and pulled out a book to read.
Huh! I couldn't do that... but would like to. Does that a lot?
I would love to buy into DVC but haven’t been able to convince Jim. That’s not a purchase that I can make without his approval!
I am renting points for the first time for the May trip, but... can't see myself buying DVC. I like to go to too many other places.
Around 8:30, they let us into the park and we were held right by Starbucks for the next while.
Wonder if anyone took advantage of that fact.
We were only a few people back from the front and this was the scene behind us.
Whoa! Packed!
I got pushed around a lot on the walk and even got full on run over by a stroller at one point.
Well that's not right. At all.
Here’s the view coming around the corner into TSL.
Because I was shuffled back some during the walk there, we ended up waiting about 15 minutes which was still not too bad.
Yeah, that's not bad. Better than several hours... in the heat!
Our ride photo didn’t come out that well thanks to the weird shadows that morning.
I've heard of several people complaining about that ride photo.
Jim ended up really enjoying Slinky Dog. He’s not a big thrill ride enthusiast so Slinky was very much his speed.
Good to hear! Can't wait to (hopefully) try it next year.
I loaded into the car first. Wow! What a difference being on that side makes.
Must remember this.
After SDD we both needed to use the restroom which is over by Alien Saucer Swirl. The line for that ride didn’t look too bad on the way to the bathroom but by the time we were done, it had almost tripled in size. Since we had a FP for it later that afternoon, we decided to head to Toy Story Mania instead.
I read this and... missed a word somewhere. I thought the line for the
bathroom tripled in size. And then...
"She has a FP for the bathroom???.... wait..."
We ended up waiting 50 minutes for the ride.
Bit on the longish side, but... since you can't FP it anymore (at least not if you want SDD)...
We were routed to the third track.
Didn't even know there was a third track.
Things were looking grim for me, he was beating me the entire time, but somehow I managed to pull ahead of him during the last game and won by a hair.
Woot! Way to go!
I had one more thing I wanted to do before the rest of the family arrived. I wanted to meet my main dog!
And then he kicked Jim out so that I could have a picture with just him.
I can just see that.
After the Pluto meet, Jim needed a bathroom break
Good thing you had that FP.