SoCalTinkerbelle
12-30-2006, 08:39 PM
So my friend and I did not make a trip on Christmas.. but decided to go today.. Not too bad a time, we left by 3 this afternoon.
We got in the park before 8 (I've never done that!), went into Blue Ribbon Bakery and got pumpkin bread and muffins, and by the time we were out of there, Main Street was all opened up. Headed toward Indiana Jones, only to find it was not up yet. And no fastpasses availible. Bummer!
So we went back across the park to Space Mountain, where the line to just get a fastpass was around 10 minutes, so we just went for standby. The wait wasn't bad, maybe 30 minutes. We then hit Buzz Lightyear, and pretty much walked onto it.. My friend had never been on it, so she was holding the gun backward! LOL. She was wondering why I was beating her score!
Went back to Adventureland, got a FP for Indiana Jones. By this time they were doing the one way traffic through Adventureland and Frontierland.
The wait to POTC ended up being 30 minutes or so, the line kept moving, which was nice. But after we exited, the line was already looping up and down alongside the bridge. Haunted Mansion only had a 15 minute wait, which was great.. as later the wait looked to be upwards of an hour.
We tried to get lunch (clam chowder in a bread bowl) at the Royal Street Veranda but after waiting close to 30 minutes in line, got to the front, and the girl said they only had gumbo!! We were NOT happy about that.. So we ate at the place just a bit past the treehouse/POTC.. Ahh can't remember the name.
By that time the line to POTC had wrapped up and over the bridge a couple times. Wow! Never seen that!
We also hit Big Thunder and rode the railroad, and that was about it. It got pretty crowded, so we did a lot of walking around, hung out along the sides of the castle (and I do beleve I saw Malcon10t's black lab right near the middle of the castle in the early afternoon!) and just enjoyed the sights rather than scrambling on rides.
We knew it would be crowded, that's why we went early, and we had also planned on leaving pretty early, so we kept to out plan.
I have honestly never seen the park that crowded. It wasn't *horrible*, I mean, they had the crowd control down pretty good, but the lines we saw for POTC, HM and Big Thunder were longer than I would have sat in. I'm so spoiled, I usually go odd days or when it's raining! although I did go the Sunday after Thanksgiving last year and it was pretty empty. But that was luck!
It was beautiful out, we were shivering almost in the shade at points, which is better than sweating!
Anyone else there today? What was your impression on the crowds?
We got in the park before 8 (I've never done that!), went into Blue Ribbon Bakery and got pumpkin bread and muffins, and by the time we were out of there, Main Street was all opened up. Headed toward Indiana Jones, only to find it was not up yet. And no fastpasses availible. Bummer!
So we went back across the park to Space Mountain, where the line to just get a fastpass was around 10 minutes, so we just went for standby. The wait wasn't bad, maybe 30 minutes. We then hit Buzz Lightyear, and pretty much walked onto it.. My friend had never been on it, so she was holding the gun backward! LOL. She was wondering why I was beating her score!
Went back to Adventureland, got a FP for Indiana Jones. By this time they were doing the one way traffic through Adventureland and Frontierland.
The wait to POTC ended up being 30 minutes or so, the line kept moving, which was nice. But after we exited, the line was already looping up and down alongside the bridge. Haunted Mansion only had a 15 minute wait, which was great.. as later the wait looked to be upwards of an hour.
We tried to get lunch (clam chowder in a bread bowl) at the Royal Street Veranda but after waiting close to 30 minutes in line, got to the front, and the girl said they only had gumbo!! We were NOT happy about that.. So we ate at the place just a bit past the treehouse/POTC.. Ahh can't remember the name.
By that time the line to POTC had wrapped up and over the bridge a couple times. Wow! Never seen that!
We also hit Big Thunder and rode the railroad, and that was about it. It got pretty crowded, so we did a lot of walking around, hung out along the sides of the castle (and I do beleve I saw Malcon10t's black lab right near the middle of the castle in the early afternoon!) and just enjoyed the sights rather than scrambling on rides.
We knew it would be crowded, that's why we went early, and we had also planned on leaving pretty early, so we kept to out plan.
I have honestly never seen the park that crowded. It wasn't *horrible*, I mean, they had the crowd control down pretty good, but the lines we saw for POTC, HM and Big Thunder were longer than I would have sat in. I'm so spoiled, I usually go odd days or when it's raining! although I did go the Sunday after Thanksgiving last year and it was pretty empty. But that was luck!
It was beautiful out, we were shivering almost in the shade at points, which is better than sweating!
Anyone else there today? What was your impression on the crowds?