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How inconsiderate of them running late - they have to know they are at WDW people have fun things to get to! But at least you got the product info you needed and still made it in time for ToT without getting drenched in the storm I love starting with a good thrill ride, gets the heart pumping!
I know!!! But I had to try and be patient..after all I wouldn't even be there if it wasn't for the conference. And it probably was good it did run over. If I had been thinking though, during the last break i should've went to my car and got my clothes to change into to save that step and some time.
My heart surely was pumpin!
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I just hate it when seminars go over in time!!
Your snack looked pretty good, btw!!
Love..Love the picture of Tower of Terror!!!
I do too and the one they put on in Detroit went long as well and I had to drive over an hour home too.
They did have some good snacks though!
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How annoying that the seminar ran late! But at least you missed being out in that storm. I know that if I had been one of the people at the seminar without a seat at a table, I would have asked the ladies with the bags on the chair to please move them.
I guess I shouldn't complain, as you are right, at least I missed the storm and didn't get drenched.
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Wow, that seminar certainly did run over, but maybe it's just as well as you weren't out in that storm!
exactly. At least I didn't get drenched....though as hot as it was, I probably would've dried off pretty fast.
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All caught up. Sorry your seminar ran late.
I lived in Columbus for 11 years and we LOVED Bag of Nails. Such good food
Can't wait to hear about your evening at the party!
Small World! it was a really good lunch!
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I just found your TR and got caught up quickly Jen! You are such an entertaining writer I have to tell you that the parking lot incident at CBR, with the family pulling up along side of you even though the parking lot was basically empty, happens to me ALL the time! My DH laughs at me whenever I tell him these stories! The other thing I have to mention is your Go Walk shoes incident. I took a bad fall a month ago in those shoes (thankfully it was on my street at home) trying to avoid a mammoth size bug that was trying to attack my DH and I while out for our evening walk. When we ran to get away from this bug that was attacking us, my Go Walk shoes have the rubber that seems to catch the pavement easily which sent me flying! I am still recovering from a concussion from when my head hit the ground I bought those shoes to go to Disney last May because they were so comfortable but I won't wear them anymore outside knowing how easy it is to slip with them!
Looking forward to hearing all about the Villain's Party!
Thanks!
I swear it happens to me a lot. And happened twice last weekend. I pulled up to a spot out of the way and was doing something and I figured I would be able to not worry about my door and of course someone tries to park next to me. I attract it I think!
I love the go-walks but you are right, you have to be careful in those. I also had the issue where Claire kept stepping on my heal in March and the back would come off and then I would have to stop and pull it back up....and in crowds it's not so easy.
That sounds awful about the concussion!
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Beautiful snacks. Mandatory seminar presentations always seem to be the most boring. Hope it will be helpful and you can get your certification finished quickly. aim trying to get some certifications finished at the moment but it looks like I may be doing some on midday breaks while at Disney. Yeah you really believe that will happen don't you.
I have 1 final thing to do yet to get my certification, which I will do this month. And then I have to get all the paperwork together. I should probably start gathering, but it just sounds so boring.
And no, I don't believe it will happen!
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So sorry the seminar presentations ran long and late this day. Nice start to your party time with ToT!
I was pretty annoyed, but in the end it probably was better that it ran late. I think the theme of the whole trip was something was always going to run late.
I decided that Rockin’ Rollercoaster would be my next ride. Can you believe I have only rode this once before and it was many years ago.
I went for the single rider line, but it was actually long. I started talking to the couple in front of me and also a few others. There were 3 CM’s in line as well and they were there for the party too. The wait didn’t seem so bad as we all chatted away. But in reality, if I had gone in the regular line it would’ve been faster. There just didn’t seem to be much of a need for single riders tonight.
Finally they just let us all go and I sat with the one CM. She has only rode it once before too and she warned me she would scream, which was fine with me as I would too, especially during takeoff. I also heard a CM who was working the ride say that he had cut off the line now for non-party goers and only those who had a lanyard were now in line. I thought that was strange as it was now only about 7 PM but the party didn’t start till 8.
The ride was great…and that take off really gets me, but it was so much fun! We screamed and squealed and had a great time.
You can barely see me, but I am in the back…we were actually in the very last car.
I went back out and tried to message Jeanne, but my phone froze up…..and it has been doing this off and on now which really annoys me. I hope it’s not going to die as I have a few months yet before I am eligible for the upgrade. After I let it just sit a bit I was able to turn it off and restart it and it was working fine again, but this happened a few times during the trip.
I decided it was time to find a map for the party.
My favorite show!
There were no maps to be found anywhere, so I headed back to the front.
There were a couple of CM’s handing them out and they were really strict. Only 1 map per family. I got in line to get one and a guy steps in front of me and takes his and asks for more and she says again Only 1 per family….we don’t have enough….. Really? They know how many tickets they had available for sale and they didn’t print enough maps up? Come on…Who the heck is planning this out? I got to get my map and she tells me “only 1 per family” and I say I know and again she tells me that…and I tell her that’s fine, but I am here by myself, I have no family. She acted leery as she handed me one. Yes, people do come by themselves! I was just in line with 3 CM’s who were all there by themselves. LOL. I read later that they did run out of maps and people were not happy. The lines for the characters were already super long too. At 6 PM the Malificent line was already 2 hours long. I pretty much knew at that point that I wasn’t going to go meet characters as I am not a patient person when it comes to lines like that. Many ended up getting closed off early in the evening too.
I then headed towards Star Tours. I figured I would get in one more ride before the party officially started….and then I would need to find food as I was getting hungry.
Jeanne messaged me that she was in line for the Brown Derby for Club Evil now. I told her I was getting in line for Star Tours and then finding food.
The ride was walk on and basically empty. Not even 2 full rows. I was in the 2nd row and there were only 3 of us and they told us to sit where ever we wanted to.
After the ride was over the party was started. I had missed the opening show, which I really never thought about till I was on the ride. Oh well. Jeanne messaged me and she was in Club Evil and told me to come and she had a table and she gave me the password to get in. I walked up and the line wasn’t too bad, but I told the CM that I had a friend in there with a table and gave the password and they let me cut in front of everyone and go right in. I found Jeanne in a few minutes and sat down. Her daughter Holly was with her and they had ordered some red light up drinks. She wasn’t sure what it was, but the waiter told us it was called One Bad Apple, but I think we kept calling it a Poison Apple and I ordered one too. Look at the cute glow cube.
It’s a skull!
The menu….there was more on the other side.
The drink was a little too strong for me and a little too sweet. It was good, but I was only going to drink one. Soon we all ordered waters as well. It was still hot and even though it was cooler in here, it still was pretty warm.
We just sat and relaxed and chatted. This was the first time I had ever been in the Brown Derby. It was smaller than I thought it would be. They had it all decorated for the party though and it was cute. There is a bar lit up in blue lights in the middle and I swore I took a picture, but I guess I didn’t. After a bit this lady came out and sang and talked. For the life of me I can’t remember her name now.
It took a while before our waiter took our orders….it was very busy in there, but Jeanne and I decided on the Captain Hook and Mr. Smee Sliders (2 sliders one with Wagyu Beef and on with Adouille Chicken) and Holly got the Malificent Loaded Staffs ( It has some sort of spring roll and stead fries I believe). We called them the sticks as that is what it looked like.
This lady came on over and posed for us.
We then got excited……Look who is roaming the room!
We didn’t know that there would be characters in here! What a treat!
That was quite interesting at the conference with the environmentalists! Can't believe how hot it is! Glad you had a good time on TOT and seem to be enjoying the Villains Party so far.
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Oh wow, the villains event already looks like it well worth it!
Club Evil was the place to be and I really think it made it worth it being at the party!
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Awesome picture of Cruella! How ridiculous and poorly planned that they ran out of maps!
I really think they threw this party together and someone wasn't thinking very clearly!
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Just found your TR!
That was quite interesting at the conference with the environmentalists! Can't believe how hot it is! Glad you had a good time on TOT and seem to be enjoying the Villains Party so far.
I attrack all kinds of weirdos!
And yes, it was so hot!
I really had a good time at the party but I know a lot of people complained about it.
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What a crazy wait for RnRC! I love the picture of Cruella! Perfect!
It was much longer than I thought it would be. Probably if I had gone back during the party hours my wait would've been shorter, but at least I had fun in line.
I love Cruella, so seeing her made my night.
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Looks like you had a lot of,fun.
I really did!
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Sounds like a fun start! I had heard about the character lines, similar things happened to us last year.
They really need to come up with a better plan, which may mean offer more parties and sell less tickets.
Our food came out then and I took so really crappy pictures of mine.
The little chips were really good, the beef slider was better than the chicken. Neither were what I would call fabulous, but they weren’t bad either. It was just different than normal food I would normally eat…and I did eat them all.
Cruella kept making the rounds.
And then look who appeared!
How exciting. I don’t think I have ever seen the Queen of Hearts before.
I took a picture of Jeanne with her and then I had Jeanne take one of me, but it didn’t take. She didn’t know how to work my camera and she just let the flash go off and didn’t hold it long enough for the picture to take…so I grabbed Holly and we went and stalked the Queen so I could get a picture too.
Of course I look like a total dork in this picture.
While sitting at the table, just relaxing and enjoying ourselves, I noticed the people in the booth next to use got some dessert and it looked cute and yummy…at least in the dark it did, so we quickly looked at the menu and found it. There was a Club Evil Dessert Trio which consisted of Hade’ Blue hair, a Raspberry Sphere filled with and Orange Truffel on Pop Rocks, Malificent Fury, Dark Cherry Gelato in a Vanilla Cornet, and Cruella’s Evil 7 Layer Chocolate Cake, White Chocolate Oreo Mousse, Raspberry Jam and Dark Chocolate Ganache.
Yep, we wanted that! Holly said she was too full, but when the waiter came by, she ordered one too. LOL.
I started on the Hades’ first and it was not bad, but it was weird. It had the texture of an eyeball, so that was a little strange and the pop rocks exploding in my mouth was really a weird feeling. It also had cotton candy on top. Without even realizing it, the Malificent was gelato and that started to melt fast. In fairness I think it was already melting when the waiter brought it out. So we quickly switched over to eating that next and it was pretty much liquid at that point. It was good, but had it actually been in the frozen form, I think it would’ve been better. The Cruella Mousse was really good too.
The service was very slow, but it was also really busy. All the tables were full and they had some stand up tables as well and those were full and still there were a few people just roaming around. At one point across the way Jeanne noticed a lot of people hovering around a table. We wondered if someone famous was over there, so I walked over to take a look…pretending like I was looking at the decorations. I saw no one I recognized and was about to walk away when a family asked if I needed a seat. LOL. Oops caught in the act. I told them no, I was just looking at the decorations and went back and sat down.
We also knew another co-worker was in Club Evil as well…Nikki. We had been messaging back and forth and she kept saying she was near Pain and Panic. I took a walk around, but I could not find her at all. Nor did I see Pain and Panic walking around anywhere. I didn’t think the place was that big, but maybe there was another room?
We kept saying that we were by the blue bar. Finally I went back far enough and found her. I had been looking behind a pillar, but never stuck my head into that room far enough. Sure enough she was there with her husband and there were statues of Pain and Panic back by her table. I grabbed her and took her back to our table and we chatted a few minutes and had Holly take our picture.
Nikki went back to her table and then we sat and chatted some more and we noticed the step sisters were roaming around. I only got a glimpse of Anastasia, and the picture is really bad. Drizzella however, did come over.
A bit of a stalking picture.
Or two….
Cruella also came back over.
And another visit from Drizzella.
Cruella then overtook the podium and sang…I don’t think she was really supposed to do that, but she was feeling the spirit.
Our bill had come out and we paid. This was not a cheap meal/experience as I believe mine was close to $50 when I added a tip, but to me it was well worth it. I was not out in the extreme heat (though it still was pretty warm in here) and I got to see characters that I hadn’t planned on, and it was nice chatting with Jeanne and Holly and meeting up with Nikki as well. I would do it again in a heartbeat!
We decided it was time to head out, though we wouldn’t have mind staying there all night. We went back to say good bye to Nikki and her husband and then I took a few pictures of the Pain and Panic statues too. As we got up a guy asked us if we were leaving and we said yes and he quickly grabbed our table.
Looked like a fun time and experience there. Photos came out pretty good, considering how dark it was in there or seemed.
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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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I love starting with a good thrill ride, gets the heart pumping!
The other thing I have to mention is your Go Walk shoes incident. I took a bad fall a month ago in those shoes (thankfully it was on my street at home) trying to avoid a mammoth size bug that was trying to attack my DH and I while out for our evening walk. When we ran to get away from this bug that was attacking us, my Go Walk shoes have the rubber that seems to catch the pavement easily which sent me flying! I am still recovering from a concussion from when my head hit the ground
I bought those shoes to go to Disney last May because they were so comfortable but I won't wear them anymore outside knowing how easy it is to slip with them!
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Can't believe how hot it is! 
Glad you had a good time on TOT and seem to be enjoying the Villains Party so far. 
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