Today was a very unique experience for us all. Disney had a 24 Hour party where Magic
Kingdom was open from 6AM Friday to 5:59AM Saturday. A
few of us decided to be brave and get there right as the park opened. We departed from the hotel at approximately
4:15 AM! Those of us who ventured to the park at opening had a very clear goal
in mind -- meet Anna and Elsa from Disney's Frozen. You're probably wondering why a bunch of
college students had the urge to meet Disney Princesses at the crack of
dawn. Turns out, the average wait time
to meet these two characters is 300 minutes (that's 5 hours)! In fact, there
are so many people trying to get to this meet-and-greet when the park opens
that all cast members have to line up with a rope every morning and walk people
into the park. Lucky for us, we were at
the front of the Furman Frozen Family Fun Five K.
After our adventure to meet the two most popular princesses,
we wanted to take advantage of the sunrise over the castle and found a Disney
photographer to capture this moment for us.
Well, the photographer saw the Happy Birthday button Jamey was wearing in
anticipation of his birthday and decided to have a little fun. He had Jamey close his eyes and Annie kneel
down and... well, I think this picture will explain the rest (and the title of this post):
The day was going so well and we were having a blast! But it was only 6:50 and we, for the first
time ever, didn't know what to go do. As
I'm sure you can guess, that didn't take long to change as we saw the Seven Dwarfs
Train was open. This is a brand new ride
that wasn't supposed to open until May 28th.
Today was the first time they were letting people (besides cast members)
ride this, and we got to ride it!
As we were walking to the renovated Carousel of Progress, we
happened upon the kugel ball. It was cool to play with this because we just
talked about how this works in our physics lessons. Basically, even though the stone ball weighs
a lot, we are able to easily push it around because of the film of water
underneath it which reduces the friction.
Without this water, it's practically impossible for even eight full
grown adults to budge the kugel.
Around this time, half of the group decided not to brave the
huge crowds and heat and needed to recover while others were just venturing out
to Hollywood Studios. It just so happens
that this weekend was part of Star Wars weekend and some of us had the
opportunity to meet Luke Skywalker!
After all of the excitement during the day, the unique
adventure began as we entered Magic Kingdom after hours.
There were many parades going on throughout
the night including the Villains parade to introduce the new Disney Movie
Maleficent. One of the favorite parades was the Electric Parade. Here we are waiting for the 12:45am parade.
We conquered
the three Mountains (Splash, Space, and Big Thunder) all after 1am and danced away
to Dance Parties with Chip and Dale and Minnie Mouse.
Today was certainly a unique experience as we beat the
crowds and partied away at the 24 Hour Party; class tomorrow is gonna be a
struggle.
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