July 5th and 6th
Allright last night was a late night so here's a recount of my days off.
Wednesday July 5th 2006
Today started off with me not knowing what to do since I didn't know of anyone who had the day off... I ended up on the couch listening to music and playing the new Pirates of the Carabbiean game for my Nintendo DS. Shortly after Christine showed up and she was heading to Epcot on herself to explore the World Showcase. I ended up tagging along and we met up with John on the bus since he was on his way to work. When we arrived, John headed off to get ready for work and me and Christine went to Test Track to get fast passes since it's a popular ride and it was allready the early afternoon. Luckily we only had a few hours wait before we could use the passes. At this point Jei contacted me, aparently she had the day off as well and was going to meet us at Epcot about an hour after that point.
Since we had a bit of time to kill before Jei arrived we decided to ride Mission Space. It was a relativly short line for the day/attraction and it was only about a 30 minute wait. Once we got close to getting on the ride I realised I had missed 3 calls from John and had a voice mail. Deciding to check that after the ride I ignored the message and me and Chrstine rode the ride. When we got off I looked at my phone again and I had missed a call from both Jei and John. Since John had called me 4 times at that point I called him and found out he had gotten an early release (at his request) from his shift that day and thus only worked for about 15 minutes. We arranged to meet up in the Mexico pavilion since thats where we were planning on meeting Jei shortly, and I called Jei. Turns out she was in the Canada pavilion at that point but still offered to meet us at the Mexico pavilion (after getting some kind of iced coffee beverage.)
Since Jei had never ridden Mission Space and wanted to the 4 of us then went to ride the ride, after getting both John and Jei fast passes for Test Track. Then we took a small detour through Innoventions since Jei wanted to look for an Irish fellow named Kevin. After finding him and playing the game he was running we then headed over to ride Sorin' and Living With The Land (which left me feeling like I was watching an educational film). At this point it was time for us to use our Test Track Fast Passes, so we headed back over there only to find out it was temporarly shut down for maintence. We decided to head off to the Magic Kingdom instead to ride Pirates of the Carribean and whatever else came our way. At this point however Jei split up with us to go to a movie with another one of her friends.
We arrived to the Magic Kingdom expecting a long wait for PotC, and were quite shocked to see the 10 minute wait sign. So we quickly got into the line and onto the ride at the back of the boat. It was very much the same as when I saw it on the preview but since I didn't comment then I'll comment now. The rest of this paragraph and the next detail the changes so if you don't want to know skip them. I was going to put up pictures but I decided against it in case people don't want to see it. The first change occours right at the start, you round a bend and there's a waterfall right in front of you, and suddenly the fact of Davy Jones appears, gives you a little speach and then falls with the water right as you happen to pass through it (however you don't get wet due to it being a smoke screen or something and not a real waterfall). The next change occours in the scene where the pirate ship is fighting with the canons mounted in the wall. The captain on the ship has been changed to the Black Pearl's captaian Barbossa (apparently eventually the ship will become the Black Peal). Shortly after that in the well dunking scene is the next change.
In this scene of the ride the person in the well is now being interrogated for the whereabouts of one Captain Jack Sparrow. Little to the pirates knowledge Jack himself is hiding a short distance behind them keeping an eye on the situation. A short way around the bend from that you see a drunken pirate with a key in his hand and a treasure map in his lap. He's giving a drunken ramble about how Jack Sparrow will never see the map nor gain the key. However just behind him hidden in a barrel you see Jack popping up and taking a peek at the map. Finally at the end of the ride you see Jack with all of his treasure on a chair talking to a parret and singing the classic song from the ride "Yo Ho Yo Ho a pirates life for me..."
Anyway once we got off the ride you of course exit through a gift shop and after John bought himself a pirate hat we were off to ride the ride again. This time the line time was a whoping 5 minutes. In fact we didn't even wait we walked right on! This time we took the front of a boat. After the PotC we went on the Jungle Cruise where Louisa wasn't working thus I still haven't met her yet. After our Jungle Cruise we went to the Haunted Mansion to see if Shanan was working. When we arrived she was working the wheelchair line. When we came out of the ride she wasn't there anymore (a rotation occoured) and John wanted to go on it immediatly again, this time Shanan was working Load 1 right where you enter your Doom Buggy. I snuck a picture of her before she knew what was happening and since I was at the front of the line and my flash probably got her right in the eyes. As such she kept a serious look on her face and pretty much blocked the path staring right at me for maybe 15-20 seconds, eventually backing out of my way (and I think she smirked a bit) letting us into our Doom Buggies.
After this ride we went and watched probably the best 3d movie on WDW property Mickey's Philharmagic before going to ToonTown (where I knew I could buy a poweraid and where Christine had never visited). Since there's only one ride there we went to Goofy's Barnstormer where Shayna happened to be running the ride. The Barnstormer is a rollercoaster for kids and while it is a short ride it sure gets some good speed. Anyway when we got off Shayna was about to rotate to Mickey's house so we followed her there and decided to go through and meet the mouse. When we got out John went to talk to Shayna and Christine came with me and she tried on hats while I bought my poweraid. After our maybe 5 minutes in the merch area, me and Christine headed across a road past John and into a main merch shop. I saw Pirates of the Carribean Monopoly which caught my eye but I couldn't afford it. I did splurge and get Disney TTheme Park Uno cards however (with a special EVIL card). John found us in the store and he thought we had ditched him.
Me and Christine were pretty tired at this point and I think we were both ready to leave but John wanted to ride PotC again so for the 3rd time we went back on the ride, and while it's a great ride 3 times in a night is getting to be a bit much (almost as exciting as seeing The Haunted Mansion twice in a row). We then took the boats back to the busses and headed home, John to a Pirates party (beacuse of the movie being released today) and me and Christine headed back to chatham, I went to bed pretty early and she chatted with some of my roomates for a bit.
July 6 2006
Today was an early morning, because it was the first day of the SALSA sale (Spend A Little Save Alot) and Christine, John, and I wanted to get there when it opened at 7. I didn't find much for my grandparents, dad, or me, but I did find gifts for my mom and a few little people. I also picked up my paycheques at Epcot while I was there. All of us then brought our stuff home and I kicked back and relaxed for a bit while Christine went to Animal Kingdom to go to costuming and pick up her pay cheques. When she got back we took the bus to Disney U/Property control. At Disney U we were able to cash our paycheques and then we went to Property Control/Cast Connection to look for more deals. At property control I found a mint condition Pal Mickey (special edition) and a perfect Tower of Terror movie DVD. The problems were as follows, the Pal Mickey got returned to whatever store the guest bought it and judging from the condition of it they used it for no more than a day and returned it. The Tower of Terror disc was mint condition yet it's shrinkwrap had been partially removed. Both of these factors gave me a 75% discout.
We then went over to cast connection where I was looking for more gifts for little people and the people I couldn't find gifts for. I grabbed some postcards, and some more gifts and headed out. Christine had wanted to get a cellphone so we decided we'd go to Downtown Disney in a few hours. We brought our stuff home, and we had a good hour and fifteen minute wait for the bus. After a good relaxing rest we were off for Downtown Disney and more specifically Virgin Megastore. While we were there I picked up The Amazing Race season 7 (which you can't get in Canada for some reason) and Christine got her $30 phone. Since thats all we needed to do we left Downtown Disney to go back to Chatham, since then all I've done is bought 4 movie tickets online for tomorrow nights 10:00 showing of Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Mans Chest for Jei, Matt Chan, Me and someone else I'm not quite sure who.
Tomorrow I work a 9-3 shift currently on The Land cart (a cart I worked about a week ago where I sold pretzals). and with the movie at 10 I'm not sure what i'm going to do in the afternoon, however my bus for the movie will be leaving at about 9 so I'll be home for about 5.5 hours tomorrow afternoon I think.
Wednesday July 5th 2006
Today started off with me not knowing what to do since I didn't know of anyone who had the day off... I ended up on the couch listening to music and playing the new Pirates of the Carabbiean game for my Nintendo DS. Shortly after Christine showed up and she was heading to Epcot on herself to explore the World Showcase. I ended up tagging along and we met up with John on the bus since he was on his way to work. When we arrived, John headed off to get ready for work and me and Christine went to Test Track to get fast passes since it's a popular ride and it was allready the early afternoon. Luckily we only had a few hours wait before we could use the passes. At this point Jei contacted me, aparently she had the day off as well and was going to meet us at Epcot about an hour after that point.
Since we had a bit of time to kill before Jei arrived we decided to ride Mission Space. It was a relativly short line for the day/attraction and it was only about a 30 minute wait. Once we got close to getting on the ride I realised I had missed 3 calls from John and had a voice mail. Deciding to check that after the ride I ignored the message and me and Chrstine rode the ride. When we got off I looked at my phone again and I had missed a call from both Jei and John. Since John had called me 4 times at that point I called him and found out he had gotten an early release (at his request) from his shift that day and thus only worked for about 15 minutes. We arranged to meet up in the Mexico pavilion since thats where we were planning on meeting Jei shortly, and I called Jei. Turns out she was in the Canada pavilion at that point but still offered to meet us at the Mexico pavilion (after getting some kind of iced coffee beverage.)
Since Jei had never ridden Mission Space and wanted to the 4 of us then went to ride the ride, after getting both John and Jei fast passes for Test Track. Then we took a small detour through Innoventions since Jei wanted to look for an Irish fellow named Kevin. After finding him and playing the game he was running we then headed over to ride Sorin' and Living With The Land (which left me feeling like I was watching an educational film). At this point it was time for us to use our Test Track Fast Passes, so we headed back over there only to find out it was temporarly shut down for maintence. We decided to head off to the Magic Kingdom instead to ride Pirates of the Carribean and whatever else came our way. At this point however Jei split up with us to go to a movie with another one of her friends.
We arrived to the Magic Kingdom expecting a long wait for PotC, and were quite shocked to see the 10 minute wait sign. So we quickly got into the line and onto the ride at the back of the boat. It was very much the same as when I saw it on the preview but since I didn't comment then I'll comment now. The rest of this paragraph and the next detail the changes so if you don't want to know skip them. I was going to put up pictures but I decided against it in case people don't want to see it. The first change occours right at the start, you round a bend and there's a waterfall right in front of you, and suddenly the fact of Davy Jones appears, gives you a little speach and then falls with the water right as you happen to pass through it (however you don't get wet due to it being a smoke screen or something and not a real waterfall). The next change occours in the scene where the pirate ship is fighting with the canons mounted in the wall. The captain on the ship has been changed to the Black Pearl's captaian Barbossa (apparently eventually the ship will become the Black Peal). Shortly after that in the well dunking scene is the next change.
In this scene of the ride the person in the well is now being interrogated for the whereabouts of one Captain Jack Sparrow. Little to the pirates knowledge Jack himself is hiding a short distance behind them keeping an eye on the situation. A short way around the bend from that you see a drunken pirate with a key in his hand and a treasure map in his lap. He's giving a drunken ramble about how Jack Sparrow will never see the map nor gain the key. However just behind him hidden in a barrel you see Jack popping up and taking a peek at the map. Finally at the end of the ride you see Jack with all of his treasure on a chair talking to a parret and singing the classic song from the ride "Yo Ho Yo Ho a pirates life for me..."
Anyway once we got off the ride you of course exit through a gift shop and after John bought himself a pirate hat we were off to ride the ride again. This time the line time was a whoping 5 minutes. In fact we didn't even wait we walked right on! This time we took the front of a boat. After the PotC we went on the Jungle Cruise where Louisa wasn't working thus I still haven't met her yet. After our Jungle Cruise we went to the Haunted Mansion to see if Shanan was working. When we arrived she was working the wheelchair line. When we came out of the ride she wasn't there anymore (a rotation occoured) and John wanted to go on it immediatly again, this time Shanan was working Load 1 right where you enter your Doom Buggy. I snuck a picture of her before she knew what was happening and since I was at the front of the line and my flash probably got her right in the eyes. As such she kept a serious look on her face and pretty much blocked the path staring right at me for maybe 15-20 seconds, eventually backing out of my way (and I think she smirked a bit) letting us into our Doom Buggies.
After this ride we went and watched probably the best 3d movie on WDW property Mickey's Philharmagic before going to ToonTown (where I knew I could buy a poweraid and where Christine had never visited). Since there's only one ride there we went to Goofy's Barnstormer where Shayna happened to be running the ride. The Barnstormer is a rollercoaster for kids and while it is a short ride it sure gets some good speed. Anyway when we got off Shayna was about to rotate to Mickey's house so we followed her there and decided to go through and meet the mouse. When we got out John went to talk to Shayna and Christine came with me and she tried on hats while I bought my poweraid. After our maybe 5 minutes in the merch area, me and Christine headed across a road past John and into a main merch shop. I saw Pirates of the Carribean Monopoly which caught my eye but I couldn't afford it. I did splurge and get Disney TTheme Park Uno cards however (with a special EVIL card). John found us in the store and he thought we had ditched him.
Me and Christine were pretty tired at this point and I think we were both ready to leave but John wanted to ride PotC again so for the 3rd time we went back on the ride, and while it's a great ride 3 times in a night is getting to be a bit much (almost as exciting as seeing The Haunted Mansion twice in a row). We then took the boats back to the busses and headed home, John to a Pirates party (beacuse of the movie being released today) and me and Christine headed back to chatham, I went to bed pretty early and she chatted with some of my roomates for a bit.
July 6 2006
Today was an early morning, because it was the first day of the SALSA sale (Spend A Little Save Alot) and Christine, John, and I wanted to get there when it opened at 7. I didn't find much for my grandparents, dad, or me, but I did find gifts for my mom and a few little people. I also picked up my paycheques at Epcot while I was there. All of us then brought our stuff home and I kicked back and relaxed for a bit while Christine went to Animal Kingdom to go to costuming and pick up her pay cheques. When she got back we took the bus to Disney U/Property control. At Disney U we were able to cash our paycheques and then we went to Property Control/Cast Connection to look for more deals. At property control I found a mint condition Pal Mickey (special edition) and a perfect Tower of Terror movie DVD. The problems were as follows, the Pal Mickey got returned to whatever store the guest bought it and judging from the condition of it they used it for no more than a day and returned it. The Tower of Terror disc was mint condition yet it's shrinkwrap had been partially removed. Both of these factors gave me a 75% discout.
We then went over to cast connection where I was looking for more gifts for little people and the people I couldn't find gifts for. I grabbed some postcards, and some more gifts and headed out. Christine had wanted to get a cellphone so we decided we'd go to Downtown Disney in a few hours. We brought our stuff home, and we had a good hour and fifteen minute wait for the bus. After a good relaxing rest we were off for Downtown Disney and more specifically Virgin Megastore. While we were there I picked up The Amazing Race season 7 (which you can't get in Canada for some reason) and Christine got her $30 phone. Since thats all we needed to do we left Downtown Disney to go back to Chatham, since then all I've done is bought 4 movie tickets online for tomorrow nights 10:00 showing of Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Mans Chest for Jei, Matt Chan, Me and someone else I'm not quite sure who.
Tomorrow I work a 9-3 shift currently on The Land cart (a cart I worked about a week ago where I sold pretzals). and with the movie at 10 I'm not sure what i'm going to do in the afternoon, however my bus for the movie will be leaving at about 9 so I'll be home for about 5.5 hours tomorrow afternoon I think.
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