The alarms went off in the 5 o’clock hour. We quickly got ready and headed out the door, quite proud of ourselves for continuing our bus stop 90 minutes ahead of opening habit, on less than 4 hours of sleep.
A bus showed up pretty quickly and we were off to Hollywood Studios. Either the Skyliner got a slow start or our driver put the pedal to the metal, because somehow even though we were dragging, and walkers and Skyliners have a total advantage over bussers here, we once again managed to be at the start of a tapstyle line. We had to wait awhile, but we passed the time chatting with a really pleasant CM from England.
Eventually we were given the all clear and we tapped into the park. At Sunset, Jessie and I divided to conquer, with her headed for ToT and me headed for Slinky Dog.
When I reached Toy Story Land, I found…exceptionally low crowds. So I did some picture taking while making my way to Slinky. It was a beautiful morning.
Despite my picture taking, I got a pretty good spot in the Slinky Dog line. And then the CMs starting warning us that the ride may or may not have a delayed opening. Oh yeah…there does seem to be a distinct lack of ride testing happening. They seemed to be recommending we stick around, so I did, with the intent to bail if Jessie was off ToT before they started running any trains.
That’s exactly what happened. They still hadn’t started testing when Jessie texted that she was off ToT, so I scooted out of line and met up with her at Runaway Railway, which turned out to be a walk-on. Umm…where are the people?
After Runaway Railway, which I enjoyed more than I did last summer, we headed for Toy Story Land. Slinky Dog was still down, so we continued on with our original plan to ride Toy Story Mania. The line was short, probably less than 15 minutes. While in line, I looked at MDE, remembering a comment Jessie had made about having not been to Oga’s while we were waiting at the tapstyles chatting with that CM. Low and behold, there was a 10:00 am Oga’s reservation available. I showed Jessie and then booked it! SCORE! Then we got ready for Midway Mania!
As we exited Midway Mania it was obvious that Slinky Dog was JUST getting up and running. We headed straight there and got in line. It ended up being about a 25 minute wait, but we got on!
While in line for Slinky Dog, I had mobile ordered a second breakfast, so we headed for Woody’s Lunchbox. It was a bit tricky to figure out where I was supposed to go, since mobile order pickup and standard pickup were at the same place, but I got it eventually and got my raspberry lunchbox tart. This was surprisingly good, and also nice and portable to eat as we walked toward Galaxy’s Edge.
We had just about perfect timing, so we headed for the single rider line at Smuggler’s Run. We marveled at the efficiency of the CM who was sorting people out, and were on the ride pretty quickly. I got to ride with the family that was yelling at each other about how they were failing at the mission, so it was a pretty entertaining ride.
I was off the ride first, but I only had to wait a few minutes before Jessie emerged. Then we headed straight for Oga’s, where I checked in on the app, and we got the text that they were ready for us just a couple minutes later. We headed in and were actually brought to the bar, not the tucked away corner where Nick and I were stuck in February!
We each just got one drink, but we thoroughly enjoyed our time here. I had the outer rim, Jessie had the other margarita-like drink on the menu. Both of us enjoyed our drinks. The bar tender was FANTASTIC. She had incredible skill at carrying on a spontaneous conversation while staying in character. Overall enjoyable experience!
After Oga’s, we headed for Star Tours. We had also mobile ordered lunch while waiting in line for Slinky and it wasn’t quite time for that yet. Star Tours ended up being just about the right wait time to kill time before lunch. We both were a bit surprised to find this one actually had a pretty legitimate line, but we got to skip part of it when they needed a party of 2, and most of the wait was in air conditioning. We got sent to the back row after being questioned about motion sickness, and definitely found the back of the bus to be a wilder ride than other locations in the simulator. We both were pretty sure we had not had this particular scene before too, so that was good.
From Star Tours it was back to Toy Story Land. As we entered the land, I hit the “I’m here” button, and almost instantly got the order ready notification, so we headed straight to the mobile order pickup window for our totchos and cups of ice water. Jessie found a table where we had to stand but at least we didn’t have to figure out how to eat Totchos while walking! And there was some shade. A miracle in this part of the park! The totchos were delicious! And I thoroughly appreciated being able to order mine with no sour cream!
Once we’d finished this meal’s addition to the meat and potatoes tour of Disney World, we headed for the park exit, very proud of how much we had accomplished this morning on so little sleep! We agreed as we were headed for the buses that everyone who’d gone to the party the night before must have chosen Hollywood Studios for today because while the first couple hours of the morning had had very light crowds, that was definitely no longer the case!
We didn’t have to wait very long for a bus and pretty soon we were back at French Quarter, where we both took naps.
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