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Day 3 November 24th, 2013 Part 4
While we were in Paradise Pier DGM, DM and DD2 wanted to go on the Little Mermaid. My DA and I have no problem going on the LM ride with them since we were in the area. My DA is not a big fan of the LM ride ever since it opened in 2011 but she has no problem riding it with other people like me or other people. The LM ride is one of the rides at DCA that I have ridden a lot ever since it opened in 2011. It almost feels like I have ridden this ride at least once during each trip to the DLR.
I forgot to get FPs for World of Color: Winter Dreams that morning while we were in DCA that morning when taking advantage of EMH. But since we were close to Grizzly River Run, I sprinted on over to GRR to get the FPs and hope that the blue 9pm FPs are still there. I collected everyones tickets and AP so I can get the FPs for WoC Winter Dreams. Since we only need one person to collect the FPs, I was the FP runner like every other trip.
I got to GRR that morning and gave our tickets and APs to the CMs at GRR and luckily we were able to get the 9pm blue FPs that day. I was relieved that we were able to get the blue FPs that morning where we spent most of it at Cars Land.
Then I head on back to front entrance of the Little Mermaid ride in order to go on the ride. They told me that they will wait. I got back shortly getting the FPs for WoC Winter Dreams for the 9pm show and they were all waiting for me to go on the Little Mermaid ride.
When we approached the entrance to the LM ride, the wait time was only at 5 minutes. There are times during the trip in which the wait time to get on the LM ride was as long as 20 minutes. There are certain times of the day that the ride can be that long to get on it. During that morning, the wait time was not that long which is nice to ride it in the morning or at night. During the afternoon is the busy part of the day in which it can be around 20 minutes to get on the ride.
We all walked on the ride and we are about to go under the sea and see Ariel.
During my picture taking on the Little Mermaid ride with my new DSLR, these are one of the worst pictures that I have taken on the ride. I was still learning all the settings on the camera and they didnt produce the quality as I have expected. I didnt set the ISO at 3200 since I used it at 1600 with the Tamron 17-50 f/2.8 lens. The pictures were blurry for most part of the ride in which I wont show all of them, but there were some pictures that were not that bad. So here are pictures from the Little Mermaid ride during that morning.
Scuttle at the beginning of the ride
Ariel
Ursula
Eric and Ariel
I was a little disappointed to see the pictures after the ride that I didnt get the quality type ones that I wanted on the ride. But everyone else had a fun time riding the Little Mermaid ride. My DA had no problem with going on the ride with DGM, DM and DD2.
After we got off the ride, we started to head on over to our next activity at DCA was Disney Junior-Live on Stage! at Hollywood Land. The last time I have seen Disney Junior-Live on Stage! was back during the January trip with my aunt, her BF and once DD2 now DD3 (we are not talking about DD2 during this trip but the one from the January 2013 trip). They wanted to see the show during the trip and we were planning on seeing the 10:15am show. So we started to walk on over to HL to get in the queue for the 10:15am show.
The park started to get a little busy that Sunday morning.
When we passed by the RSR FP queue, the return time was already at 7:10pm to 8:10pm. This was around 9:30am that morning and to be able to ride RSR is all the way up at that time. I thought about getting in the queue to get FPs for RSR but we planned on watching the 9pm WoC: Winter Dreams show that night so there isnt enough time to ride RSR that night.
It was around 9:40am when we got over to Disney Junior-Live on Stage! at HL and we waited in the queue about 30 minutes until it was time for the 10:15am show.
There were about 20 people in front of us with about half an hour until the 10:15am show which is not that bad so we are able to get a nice decent spot to watch the show.
It didnt took too until we entered the building. DM and DD2 got a ground sitting spot in front of the show while DGM, DA and I got a bench at the back of the building since we didnt want to sit on the ground.
The show is a little different back in January when they added Sofia the First and Doc McStuffins back in February. It was nice to see the new show when I watched it back in January. I dont see this show too often since I do other activities at the DLR but it was nice to watch the show.
Pictures from the 10:15am Disney Junior-Live on Stage! show.
Mickey and the gang are planning a surprise birthday party for Minnie.
Sofia the First scene
Doc McStuffins scene
The bubbles are coming down
Happy Birthday Minnie
The show was very nice and DD2 had a fun time. I thought the show was way better than the one that I saw back in January 2013. Adding Sofia in the show makes it better for the young kids to see their favorite princess.
After getting out of the building, we had some time to kill until we head on over to our next activity that afternoon. The day was nice and I had to get some pictures of HL while we were in the area including more Christmas decorations in the windows.
On the buildings
And everywhere around HL.
Everyone had to use the restroom until we started go to our next activity that day at DCA. But that will be on the next post so stay tune for the next update at DCA.