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08:19 AM - 08/19/2009

The topic: Note to self

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The next time you think you want to go to Disneyland to see something “special” during the summer and you make reservations months in advance, make sure that the day you go up isn’t the first day of the lifting of the blockout dates for the cheap APs (the less money you pay for your passport, the more blockout days you’re hit with…).  Most of the APs (annual passports, did you know there are 800,000 plus?) have the summer blocked out.  From mid-June to mid-August.

The blockout was lifted on Sunday.  The same day we arrived.  Sunday and Monday it was a zoo. And the reason we went up, to see the new Fantasmic dragon, well, the dragon (they call him Murphy) has been down since the first week of the new show.  A disappointment to say the least.

When we went Monday morning, we headed to Big Thunder.  Down.  Then to Pirates.  Down. Then to Tomorrowland.  Star Tours. Down.  Buzz Lightyear.  Down.  The Matterhorn wasn’t running.  And it was wall to wall people.  We had breakfast at the Riverbelle Terrace, then left for home.

All in all, a disappointing trip.



Tuesday and Wednesday were just as crazy. Nothing down that I cared about except Space Mountain on Tuesday during the time I had a fastpass, I returned Wednesday morning and used it and got right on. DD is old enough to leave her at the exits to wait as I ride single rider quickly on the stuff she won’t go on. Without single rider lines it would have sucked. Stayed for Fantasmic for the first time, well worth the two hour wait sitting on the ground. Never again will I do a Summer trip although it was cooler than it is here. We returned to 102 degree heat.

Posted by Melanee @ Friday, August 21, 2009 - 10:03:44 AM

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