It was cold. 

Up at 5:00AM.
Kids up at 6:15AM.

And it was cold. Brrr.

High for the day was projected to be 56F.  That means for like 11 minutes at 3:30PM it is a whopping 56F.  All the time leading up to that moment and leading out of that moment would be LESS than 56F.

As soon as we decided to go, we talked about Disneybounding.  We planned to bound as the Fab Five this day because in 2016 we managed this photo at the Visa Character Spot.

We hoped to meet these three together again

Well – the forecast didn’t lend itself to the clothes we planned to bound in.  We made the decision to wear our clothes until we met them, then change into something warmer.

Our plan was to Rope Drop Baymax, so I reasoned we didn’t need to be amongst the first people there.

We ended up getting there earlier than we ever needed to.

The Crowd Level was predicted to be a 3/10.

At 7:58AM we were on our way to security.

We were pretty close to the tapstiles where they kept us until 8:30ish.

8:38AM.  We were so cold.  There was a lot of wind there, too, with very little to break it up.

Rope drop saw people RUNNING – full on RUNNING to Soarin’!  I was shocked.  It wasn’t supposed to be that busy today….

We accidently overshot the door to Baymax… because it was closed and I thought to look behind Innoventions West.

This door looked attractive, but was also shut.  Just as I was calling her back, they opened it.

We were the second family through the queue, because another group got in as I was parking the stroller, etc.

The went wild for our costumes.  But we were sad they didn’t pose together anymore. 

We got directions to Baymax and made dreams come true.

And we delighted in meeting Joy.  (Sadness wasn’t there.)

We headed into the Land Pavilion and most of us changed clothes.
Somewhere in there we got a notice that our Test Track Fast Pass had converted into an any time/any attraction (except Frozen Ever After) Fast Pass.

We were on Soarin’ by 9:50AM and only had a 10 minute wait.

We rode Living with the Land, then Finding Nemo, then went to Turtle Talk with Crush.  That had a longer wait than I wanted.

We started that at 11:15AM.

Crush signaled out Katriel to speak with, “That little dude with a tie dye shell and hair going in both directions.”

He asked if she had a question and she asked, “What do turtles eat?”

“Food,” he answered.  Then he cheerfully added that they eat sea grass and that is why they are green.  Then he asked her what her favorite food is.

“Mac and cheese,” she replied.  Yes.  Yes it is. ♥

11:38AM

We considered Journey into Imagination at this point, but it said a 20 minute wait and there was no way…

By 11:45AM we were sitting in the upstairs of the mostly empty Electric Umbrella to eat our lunches out of the wind. 

We went to Mission Space, some on Orange and some on Green. 

12:21PM

Those of us on Green really enjoyed it.  Some of the Orange crowd were a little ~ um ~ green…  (irony!)

We then used our Fast Pass for Test Track.  We waxed poetic over the trips where John’s GM pass got us into the employee lounge and unlimited FP access.

12:47PM

It was SO COLD as we rushed through the chilly air.

We went on Spaceship Earth and I was poised to grab some same day dropped FPP.

But I couldn’t get any for Frozen Ever After and that was all I wanted.  I tried small groups and overlapping times and kept modifying, and, and, and, I couldn’t get them.

One thing I had been noticing was that the wait times were longer than I had thought they would be AND that the walkways were super crowded.  It was both Dapper Days weekend AND the end of the Food and Wine Festival. 

We went and met Elsa and Anna without too much of a wait.

2:24PM

2:37PM

Anna was pretty good.

Elsa was fabulous.

My kids really enjoyed asking the questions suggested by Kenny the Pirate.  They enjoyed their conversations, and I think the characters did as well, to be honest.

I’d heard good things about Kringla Bakery.

The treats were divine.  The coffee, not at all. 

This picture of the family was 3:06PM.

The picture of Elsa below was 4:57PM.

Shoot me now.

We’d waited for Millennium Falcon twice, so we reasoned we could suck it up and wait for Frozen.  It said 60 minutes, so I figured it would be slightly less than that.

It wasn’t.  It was close to two hours.  I’ll say one hour and 40 minutes to be safe.

It was a beautiful ride.  And it was an indoor queue.  But our day fell apart right there on the streets of Arendelle.

Some rode the ride in the Mexico Pavilion while I tried to come up with a game plan.  That dumb ride is normally walk on and they waited 20 minutes for it.

We were cold and hungry – that sounds so funny!

But we WERE cold and we WERE hungry and I had no dinner plan, so we at in China.  It was yummy-ish.

6:07PM

We miserably walked around the countries not really doing anything but dodging crowds and popping in places to warm ourselves temporarily.  We had no energy to wait for Snow White, whom we had already met, and as we approached Aurora they were closing her queue. 

We got back to Future World and the Imagination Pavilion at 7:01PM.  Just that much too late to ride Figment ride. 

We were cold. 

So we left.