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I did not get to see this on our last trip. I did not know it inccluded "fireworks"...Now I need to see if we can see it on our next trip. Wow!
You don't have to schedule dinner during the time, either. You can eat, take your California Grill receipt downstairs, and come up later by showing your receipt. (To be honest, they did not even look at my receipt.)
There is also a lounge, so you can go up and have a drink while Wishes is on.
The Electrical Water Pageant is a floating parade that you can see from pretty much anywhere on the monorail resorts and Wilderness Lodge.
Time to start at the beginning with my trip report! (Wavy lines and wierd sounds go here as I move back in time!)
This really was very much like falling down the rabbit hole.
Our trip began with a ride in the smelliest cab known to mankind. PEW! We could barely catch enough oxygen to keep conscious. Our driver also spent the whole time talking on his cell phone in a foreign language, which is disturbing as he is weaving in and out of bumper to bumper traffic at 70 miles and hour!
I had our boarding passes all printed out, folded, and tucked inside the pockets of my PassPorter. I'd written Boarding Passes on the outside of the paper so I didn't have to open up all the papers to see what they were.
As we went through customs, I placed the paper on the table for the security person and the top fold with Boarding Passes re-folded over the printed pass. The security person looked at me like I was trying to pull something over on her and said "Writing boarding pass on a piece of paper doesn't make it a boarding pass." When I opened the paper up, she looked surprised, and said "THERE IT IS!" She cheerfully let us go on, and Tara and I spent a few moments trying to figure out if she was kidding.
This event set the stage for a whole lot of fun on the trip, though, as we joked about writing money, fast pass, or meal voucher on a piece of paper to see if we could fool someone.
In WondORLANDO, time does not always make sense, either, so I will jump ahead to the end of our trip when we are back in Newark Airport.
Apparently, luggage falls randomly from the sky here!
So now I've shown you the very start and very end of this trip!
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Your pic of the CMs riding SM got me wondering....What do they get to do at the parks after they close? Do they always ride rides? Fun!
OHHHHHHHHHH! What an interesting idea! Can you imagine all the Cast members running around having fun? I'll bet, if no one is there, they can even walk into another land in uniform.
I've been last and only on Peter Pan and Mexico a few years ago, and a Cast Member was riding several cars behind me. I remember the white shirt glowing in the black light for Peter Pan. I thought it was to keep an eye on the nutty person who stuck around until the end of EMH to ride, but maybe they all like to enjoy the attraction.
I am thinking that since CM's ride rides after closing and we don't know about most of it, I bet I do know who knows... The Kingdom Keepers of course. They know what the CM's do after hours...
Your pic of the CMs riding SM got me wondering....What do they get to do at the parks after they close? Do they always ride rides? Fun!
Well I do suppose they got to exit the attraction somehow at the end of the night and that's probably the easiest way to make it to the exit.
Can't wait to hear more of your TR. Especially the Cali and us being the last ones on Space Mountain. That's actually the second time I've done that. The first year I stayed at WDW back in 2002 at the WL, it wasn't EMHs and got to ride it about 7 or 8 times in the last 45 minutes or so while everyone was watching the fireworks (pre-Wishes).
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
My TR from my most recent trip is now underway. Includes: Universal Studios Florida, Disney World and Sea World Orlando Trifecta TR -Updated December 10th! TR is now COMPLETED!
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