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The kitchen and common areas aren't open until 10 for some reason, so we had to go to 7-eleven for our early morning coffee fix. The girl that had told me it wasn't open was on the phone and I overheard her say something about how Disney World was open for 24 hours, but I didn't want to get my hopes up. However, sure enough, when we picked up our tickets, the lady said it was 'Rock Your Disney Side' day, and so it had been open since 6am, and would close at 6am the next day, which we thought would be good to stay for since Alice's cousin had told us we would need at least 2 days there, and so it would save us money if we just paid the one entrance fee. Also I thought it would make a good story that we had stayed up all night and danced... with the Disney characters.
After we'd taken the train from the parking lot to the entrance gates, we had our bags checked, and then we had to have our finger prints taken, which Alice thought was a bit scary! First thing we did when we got in was to queue up to meet Mickey Mouse in his dressing room, as the building was the Town Square Theatre, so there were a few posters for some of the plays that were supposed to have been on. His outfit was quite clever, as his mouth moved when he spoke.
We walked along the main street, towards the castle, and then went to Adventureland, as that's where a girl staying at the Miami hostel told us was the only good place to go. We had a look around the Swiss Family Treehouse, which was made on top of an artificial tree. We next had a jungle cruise, although I felt a bit smug that we'd seen the REAL Amazon! We didn't realise that the Enchanted Tiki room was just a bird show pretty much, so got to the turnstiles and then backed away. After going on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, we ventured into Frontierland, where we queued up for the log flume, but they told us that there was a technical fault and to come back a bit later, so we skipped the rocky road mountain ride until we returned back to Frontierland. From Frontierland, we skipped Liberty Square, and did the Haunted Mansion a bit later on, and went on It's a Small World. It was quite cool going on it at the end of our trip as we could spot all the places we had gone in our travels. Alice surprised me by wanting to go on the Peter Pan ride, but it was actually quite enjoyable, and it instigated a lot of trips on the more immature rides such as the Winnie the Pooh, and the Little Mermaid rides. Waiting for the Winnie the Pooh ride was very noisy as there was plenty of activities for the kids to entertain themselves with, like drums, a thing you turn to make gophers pop out, a thing you turn to make balls pop out of holes and a honey wall, which you could draw pictures in, and reveal pictures underneath. Saying that though, the queues were much shorter than I had expected, maybe because it was a Friday, and maybe because of more people coming in the evening because of the 24 hour opening. Many of the things only had 10 minute waits, and other's had 30 minutes- the most we waited was a very quick 60 minutes for Space Mountain (which had some fun games to play whilst you waited) and the rocky mountain ride.
You had to wait ages to meet the Princesses, so we just went on an 'Enchanted Tale with Belle' in which the wardrobe selected people from the audience to perform a surprise play for Belle. Both the wardrobe and Lumiere moved in a very realistic way- in the case of the wardrobe she actually moved, and Lumiere had a light projection on him I think.
We had something to drink, and in my case, because I couldn't resist the idea of a sweet cream cheese pretzel, eat, and then went to see the Monsters Inc Laugh Floor comedy show. This is another thing I don' understand how they did, as it was unique to the audience (they chose various members and made them do funny things, and mentioned their names) but it was like the film had been pre-recorded. They had a camera which picked random members of the audience and had captions on the screen about them. Stitch's great escape wasn't that great, and neither was Mickey's Philarmagic FP (both of which were 4-D films). We had a disappointing dinner (I had a veggie burger and Alice had a veggie sandwich) but because of my recent lack of vegetables, I enjoyed the fact there was a toppings bar so gave myself a huge pile of lettuce, tomatoes, gherkins, onions, and mushrooms.
I admitted that I was feeling too tired to stay for the 24 hours, and Alice felt the same, so we walked back to the front entrance, although because we were there at the right time for Jack Sparrow's show, we watched that, and then decided against queuing up for Tinkerbell, and tried to get the train back to the parking lot. However, it was having maintenance checks, and so we got the ferry back instead.
We watched a bit of TV, before falling asleep.
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