Day 7
Mouse/House keeping left a
note in my room that overnight there will be a planned power outage. Since I am using my cell phone as a alarm clock, it didn’t bother me too much.
When the power went out, it woke
me up, but went back to sleep. I woke up
and the room felt warm. I checked the
thermostat, while it was set for 68 degrees, it read
that the room was currently 75. I hope
when I call maintenance, they will be more responsive then they were over my frig, to unplug it.
I called maintenance and left the room.
I have a
Tonight is a limited time
magic event at Disney Hollywood Studios, its open till
I have my usual Steak and
eggs with apple juice. After breakfast,
I head back to the monorail, back to the
After Hall of Presidents, I
head over the Country Bear Jamboree.
When I am about to enter the
theater, they announce that the attraction is down. Oh well L. I head over
to
So I head to hm. Before entering the queue i
ask a cm if handicap still uses the same standby entrance. I get half a nod.
Wait wasn't bad at all.
While in the queue I get a
cell phone alert that tells me I have a fp plus in 10 minutes for hm. So
as soon as I exited the attraction. I went back in using my fp
plus. In front of me was a group of people with a gac
card. So you can use the fp line with gac.
The first time through the mansion. I used my new
waterproof camera, which doesn’t do well in the dark. Here is the video.
Second my std
def camcorder which takes better video in the dark :-)
I didn't want to eat a full lunch as I have ‘Ohana tonight.
I knew Be Our Guest restaurant has onion soup. That with a soda should hold me
off. So I head over that way, just to
see what the line is like.
For the last several weeks, all I hear about Be Our Guest is the lines for
lunch. Forget about getting a dinner
ADR. Its about
When you are called to enter
the building,
there is another line
that has screens that shows you the items for sale. The roast beef sandwich meal is making me
hungry. So much for
getting onion soup. After a short
wait on the inside queue I am at a podium.
Here they give me a ‘rose’ with a RFID chip inside, but since I have a
Magic Band, I am told to use that instead.
He holds me for a couple of minutes before being told to go to a food
ordering station. There is a family in
front of me that takes about a minute to finish up.
I try to try and figure out
what to do, but feel a little overwhelmed at first. Right away a CM is by my side to help
me. I try and scan my Magic Band, but it
doesn’t work. He quickly says something
about no ones Magic Band seems to be working today and gets me a ‘rose’. The ‘rose’ is like a soft bean bag shaped
like a bagel without a hole.
The CM gets me a rose and the
terminal seems to be working better then my Magic Band, but it does work to pay
for the meal.
I am them directed to find a
table in a large room. I am still
feeling overwhelmed. I find a table for 4, place my rose on the table and look for the soda machines
and cutlery.
Pretty fast I feel, a food card comes to my
table. The CM pushing it asks if I
ordered the Roast Beef sandwich, I did, and give me my dessert.
I don’t know the beverage policy here, they have no RFID chips, so while eating I get more
soda. The sandwich was very good. I don’t know what they put in it, perhaps
better off not knowing. But it was hot,
juicy, just plain good. They even
brought a little dish for the ketchup for the fries. Pretty high end to me. I don’t see what to do with the dishes, so I
leave it on the table and explore the restaurant some before leaving.
It is snowing behind these
windows.
They placed a couple of glass
urns of lemon (?) flavored water on the bridge. While I was leaving,
another guest entered the bridge, and when asked if he wanted to eat there, he
said, he just came for the lemon (?) flavored water. They also still
handed out large umbrellas too.
I asked the CM on the bridge
when leaving that I heard the lines are over the bridge, and right now, there
is none? It was
After eating I used another fp plus for new mermaid
ride. Here is the std
video of it.
After going on the little
mermaid ride, I explore more of the new Fantasyland, including the new store
they have. Lots of
nice things to see here. When I
have more time, I need to explore this more.
At the train station, I see
the Roger Broggie steam engine pulling out of the
station. I just watch it. To me, steam engines look so amazing to see
moving.
I have a Fastpass plus for the Tomorrowland
Speedway, so I am heading over there.
Before going on the
Final score not good
Bad gun again?? Or I was trying to take better video then
aiming?? ;) Will use
that one.
After Buzz, I ride Tomorrowland Speedway for the first time in years,
recording my ride while driving. Don’t
try this in real life J
I then head over and do Pirates twice,
Video #1
Video #2
first the normal
standby line, then I use a FP+ to ride it again. Afterwards I find a bench to sit down
at. To tell you the truth, never saw
this before.
Its by a section that leads to a cast member only
gate. There is also some interactivity
going on here. Not sure what goes on
here, not sure I would mention even if I do know J
After Pirates I was
contemplating going to the studios for their limited time magic on Friday the
13th. It was too late to drop the scooter off in my room, or charge
it. I went to first aid at MK, asked if its ok
if I could plug in my scooter and recharge my own battery too. The person
at the desk said sure, no problem. So I hung out there till about
Outside the mens room by ‘Ohana, I found a outlet, so I plugged in my scooter. checked
in, and was seated in less them 10 minutes.
As far as the starters, they
don’t have the honey lime dressing anymore. Its
called passion something or other. Something about fruit in a salad
doesn’t click with me, so I just picked the greens. And it almost tastes
like the Honey Lime dressing I remember.
One of the complaints I had
about ‘Ohana, whether you’re a party of 1 or 6, they
bring you out the same quantity of starter food. Which being solo
eater, I can hardly put a dent in. This year they finally brought less to
me then another table of 5.
want to
guess what I don’t touch? Give you a
hint, its green J
ok.. don’t touch the chicken either J
Oh, I remember I was seated
about
the view
from my table, isn’t the
When I was being escorted to
my table, I was asked, did I have lunch today. I told the truth, there
was hardly a line for Be our Guest. So I had a
sandwich. She asked surprised... no line? I told her the horror
stories I heard, 12 people in front of me doesn’t constitute a line.
they first gave me a couple of pieces of meat, which was
ok. Then came around with the shrimp, and gave me 1/2 the skewer on my
plate. 10... 15 shrimp?? The shells came
off the shrimp very easy, but still was a messy thing to do. I judge my
table service quality on how long my soda glass goes empty. If I have another before its empty, good service. If I
am dying of thirst, not taking another bite till I have something to wash it
down with... not so good service. At first it was not so good, but got
better.
When my hands were clean
enough to look at Twitter, I was reading that the traffic to the studios was
horrific. I wasn’t even sure of the best way of getting there? Take
a Poly bus to the studios, or drive over to the TTC and catch the bus from
there. With the scooter, I prefer to try and board a
empty bus. Just the way I am, In the end,
I decided not to go.
Like I did last year, I met
Virginia (
We parted company,
I headed to the monorail to go back to the
Even the bus driver warned
about the traffic, but there was none.
I make it back to the resort
and make a bee line to check out the air conditioner situation in my
room. Its working so I am happy.
Mothra visited
my next door neighbor
Never saw a moth that large before
Probably
going to Typhoon Lagoon in the am.